Comments on: Bow Down Before the Files You Serve http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1343 Jason Scott's Weblog Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:54:36 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Matt Dunphy http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1343/comment-page-1#comment-5085 Matt Dunphy Wed, 26 Mar 2008 01:01:55 +0000 http://ascii.textfiles.com/?p=1343#comment-5085 Oh get off the Radiohead thing. Do you also think they were the first major label artist to give an album away for free? Visit <a href="http://www.thepiratebay.org/user/seed0" rel="nofollow">http://www.thepiratebay.org/user/seed0</a> and notice that Trent Reznor had uploaded nearly his entire catalog for free in early 2006 (two of the three MP3 torrents are now offline). In 320kbps MP3 format with artwork (rather than 160kbps like Radiohead) Plus two DVD releases, one of which was a two-disc, dual layered release. Plus soundboard recordings of a handful of collaborations he did while on tour with Peter Murphy and TV On The Radio. No big splash, he did it and told his fans about it. He leaked half of With Teeth directly to fans, freely, in 2005. Radiohead's IN_RAINBOWS release was a crippled attempt at implementing a model Trent was talking to the press about a good eight months earlier. I like Radiohead, but they said in the press following their last album that you can't get CD quality music on a computer, and that's why they were signing to a label and releasing the album on CD. Their box set contained a second disc of songs that not only could have fit on the first disc, but the content is now being re-released as B-Sides on singles to In Rainbows. I realize it's not out their in plain view, and I don't think that Radiohead are greedy or anything like that, but I think they get too much credit for a flawed experiment, whereas Trent went whole hog. Creative Commons, multitracks, and he released the sales data the next week, to give other artists SOME idea of what to expect. Oh get off the Radiohead thing. Do you also think they were the first major label artist to give an album away for free? Visit http://www.thepiratebay.org/user/seed0 and notice that Trent Reznor had uploaded nearly his entire catalog for free in early 2006 (two of the three MP3 torrents are now offline). In 320kbps MP3 format with artwork (rather than 160kbps like Radiohead) Plus two DVD releases, one of which was a two-disc, dual layered release. Plus soundboard recordings of a handful of collaborations he did while on tour with Peter Murphy and TV On The Radio. No big splash, he did it and told his fans about it. He leaked half of With Teeth directly to fans, freely, in 2005.

Radiohead’s IN_RAINBOWS release was a crippled attempt at implementing a model Trent was talking to the press about a good eight months earlier. I like Radiohead, but they said in the press following their last album that you can’t get CD quality music on a computer, and that’s why they were signing to a label and releasing the album on CD. Their box set contained a second disc of songs that not only could have fit on the first disc, but the content is now being re-released as B-Sides on singles to In Rainbows.

I realize it’s not out their in plain view, and I don’t think that Radiohead are greedy or anything like that, but I think they get too much credit for a flawed experiment, whereas Trent went whole hog. Creative Commons, multitracks, and he released the sales data the next week, to give other artists SOME idea of what to expect.

]]> By: ross http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1343/comment-page-1#comment-5084 ross Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:25:25 +0000 http://ascii.textfiles.com/?p=1343#comment-5084 Radiohead did the tiered-content model before NIN. Radiohead did the tiered-content model before NIN.

]]> By: http://www.ehow.com/how_2135827_repair-damaged-carpet.html http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1343/comment-page-1#comment-5083 http://www.ehow.com/how_2135827_repair-damaged-carpet.html Sun, 23 Mar 2008 05:41:11 +0000 http://ascii.textfiles.com/?p=1343#comment-5083 If only NIN were still good, instead of writing the repetitive, formulaic 1 song = 4 lines of lyric repeated over and over and over again and again shit. If only NIN were still good, instead of writing the repetitive, formulaic 1 song = 4 lines of lyric repeated over and over and over again and again shit.

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