Big Down-Loada

[nfotxn]

Bleep

Warp Records is selling high quality MP3 tracks online without any DRM restrictions. I heard about this a while ago but had no idea they'd actually go through with it. Single tacks are £0.99 which seems expensive but considering a CDS is at least £2 and usually £3-4 it's not so bad.

The best bit is being able to get rare vinyl releases that aren't under sampled hissing messes downloaded from slsk. You can preview the upcomming Squarepusher and Savath&Savalas records too!

Comments

[teljanin.livejournal.com]

cool! I will have to check it out!

[deafeuphoria.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I found out about this earlier today and it makes me wish I had a way to pay for them.

[nfotxn.livejournal.com]

Dude, visit your local bank and get a Visa checkcard or something. If you go in with your Mom and tell them that you want to be able to make online purchases without credit I'm sure they can help you. I know it's lame but if you go in with a parent they're usually more willing to help you.

[deafeuphoria.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I don't even have a bank account though. I don't have two forms of id. >_<
I'll probably figure it out sometime soon.

[cpratt.livejournal.com]

It's about fucking time, eh?

Finally, I can replace my illegal downloads from, like, 1997.

Sadly, it seems they're missing the early Sweet Exorcist 12" releases. I wants me some Testone.

[nfotxn.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I really hope it's successful and they get more licensing figured out for their artist's catalogs. Like getting Ghostly Int., Eastern Developments and Schematic wouldn't be too hard. And it would add a lot of awesome records to many of their artists catalog available for downloads.

As much as I love tDR those MouseOver scrollers have got to go.

[callingzero.livejournal.com]

I also just found out about this a few mins. ago from slashdot.org.
Warp deserves some recognition for this.
The Canadian counterpart to the RIAA - the CRIA - has announced that they will subpoena 40 people in February.
But hey, now I can catch up on Boards of Canada and Squarepusher if there's a way for Canadian customers to order.
$1.34 US per track, but without DRM nonsense, I'd be willing to pay - although come to think of it, And they're MP3 files instead of ,wma or AAC! Bravo!

[nfotxn.livejournal.com]

Yes, the lack of DRM is nice. However I think it's just because they're an electronic/progressive label so their customers are more aware of these things. Although many slashdotters and techno-fetishist are regarding this as some sort of watershed event marking the demise of DRM. Wishful thinking.

The CRIA makes me even more furious because that's not even independent Canadian artists being represented. It's Shania Twain, Treble Charger, Avril Lavigne and Sum 41 for the most part behind them. Why I should pay a tax that goes into Rita McNeil or Greg Nori's pocket for the Akufen tracks I burn on to CD is absolutely beyond me.

More and more as commercial digital music distribution becomes a reality is the legal rats nest that is the music industry everywhere is being revealed.

[callingzero.livejournal.com]

Well said, Brodie!

Even with no manufacturing, shipping, or printing costs with purchaseable downloads, record labels and artists still get the same cut as if they were shipping a CD... it's a win for the label, not the artist. But "The Industry" paints a totally different picture.

Be glad you're not in the country to see Canada's "Puretracks" service and their absolutely offensive, misleading, and fear-mongering advertising... such as the kid downloading music online, then suddenly a squad of guys in hazardous materials suits (read: "the authorities")crashes into his room and picks the kid up in forceps and tosses him into a toxic waste truck and drives away(read: "arrest"). Following this is a tag-line something like, "No porn, no viruses, no spyware... PURETRACKS". Ahem.