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Something new!
Jun. 30th, 2003 01:30 amI was reading a discussion at plastic.com about the RIAA's plans to ream everyone with an MP3 file. Most of the talk was basic:
The real point was that you download a random track from a random band since the original methods of sampling new music (radio, MTV...) have stopped playing new music. If you dig it, you buy the album straight from the artist's web site. Then you go to a show and buy more crap, cuz the band's broke and you have a day job.
This one guy mentioned a band called Dismemberment Plan, which I'd never heard of before. So I went to the web site. The first visuals were two guys that looked like Phish fans on Segways. Eeek, right? I clicked on and looked for sample tracks. I grabbed the track "What Do You Want Me To Say?" because it had a sufficiently non-jam-band title. Jam bands don't offer ego or confrontation. Either way, it's a free sample.
I was hooked right away. I haven't dug a track so fast in years! It felt good to hear a rock band with a skinny but tight rhythm section, a singer with some nasal annoyance but just enough to get you to listen to the lyrics, lyrics that weren't purely insulin nor insolent. Check 'em out if you want.
It felt good to get something good out of a message board. Heck, I'm shocked I'd never heard of this band before (they seem to be from Boston; too many publicity photos from Logan Airport; however, one photo is underneath a school in DC). I gotta get out more.
-carving up boxes, Dante
- Downloading MP3s is stealing;
- ...but the most interesting stuff isn't available any other way;
- so we hope they'll just go after the Britney Spears traders;
- Say, whatever happened to the Fair Use laws?
- Oh yeah, deregulation.
The real point was that you download a random track from a random band since the original methods of sampling new music (radio, MTV...) have stopped playing new music. If you dig it, you buy the album straight from the artist's web site. Then you go to a show and buy more crap, cuz the band's broke and you have a day job.
This one guy mentioned a band called Dismemberment Plan, which I'd never heard of before. So I went to the web site. The first visuals were two guys that looked like Phish fans on Segways. Eeek, right? I clicked on and looked for sample tracks. I grabbed the track "What Do You Want Me To Say?" because it had a sufficiently non-jam-band title. Jam bands don't offer ego or confrontation. Either way, it's a free sample.
I was hooked right away. I haven't dug a track so fast in years! It felt good to hear a rock band with a skinny but tight rhythm section, a singer with some nasal annoyance but just enough to get you to listen to the lyrics, lyrics that weren't purely insulin nor insolent. Check 'em out if you want.
It felt good to get something good out of a message board. Heck, I'm shocked I'd never heard of this band before (they seem to be from Boston; too many publicity photos from Logan Airport; however, one photo is underneath a school in DC). I gotta get out more.
-carving up boxes, Dante
