Danger Mouse's EMI-killed CD will be released as a blank CD-R, just add download

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8053471.stm

by Xichekolas • 17 years ago

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Xichekolas• 17 years ago

It's becoming increasingly hard to argue that the labels are fighting p2p for the sake of the artists.

How they can sue their customers, stifle their content producers, and stay in business is amazing.

JoelSutherland2• 17 years ago

The labels are distribution companies in the era of the internet. Staying in business without suing customers and stifling content producers would be amazing.

http://mattmaroon.com/2009/05/01/hacker-news-disease/

Edit: Perhaps I am being misunderstood. I am saying they are screwed and dragging things out to hold on to profit. How is this a controversial position?

swombat4• 17 years ago

I don't buy the Matt Maroon argument. I've worked in large corporations and observed general incompetence at many levels. You only need to look at the state of the finance industry today to see that highly paid experts can get things wrong on a massive scale.

That's not even a function of intelligence - it seems to be more a function of the level of isolation they live in. How thick are the walls of your industry's bubble? For the finance industry, it was thick enough that it's not even completely burst yet.

The music industry, similarly, seems to have an exceptionally thick bubble (probably thickened with dried up bits of Coke, discarded LSD papers, and the money they accumulated over the last 50 years of ripping off the general public and their own artists). I wouldn't be at all surprised to find out that these smart people, who, outside of that bubble, would probably think like you and me, really do believe their own bullshit - if only because they spend all day surrounded by people who keep repeating it.

Smart people aren't immune to brainwashing.

mynameishere4• 17 years ago

Danger Mouse, who is half of pop group Gnarls Barkley

Jesus, this guy's whole life is one big ripoff.

anigbrowl4• 17 years ago

While I'm not into the 'mixologist = artist' thing myself, in an age of abundant content it's a valid choice. If you're writing a consumer application and there are great libraries available for much of the functionality, you'd probably use them, right? Is it so bad to do that with music, especially when ~80% of pop music is just a thinly-disguised rearrangement of the same 3 chords?

zandorg• 17 years ago

Tons of songs are just: Play a bass note, play it an octave higher, lower, higher, with a 4/4 beat.

Then there's a note, play a note higher, one note higher, back to the first note.

For instance, The Music Sounds Better With You by Stardust, Drop the Pressure by Mylo

[Edit addition] I should also point out that in a big way, modern music is about the clarity of the production, and not necessarily the melody or lyrics.]

mynameishere4• 17 years ago

in an age of abundant content it's a valid choice.

Whatever. I remember hearing the "grey album" and have still not recovered from the aesthetic disgust. It's just absolutely pathetic that people steal, steal, steal, and then add, as their contribution, a load of their own shit--only to be praised for it! And called "artists"! And base careers off of it! Legal matters aside, it should just be utterly banished from decent society.

just a thinly-disguised rearrangement of the same 3 chords?

Yeah, well, you might as well say, "Geez, music just keeps using the same 12 notes over and over, therefore it's okay to take exact recordings of other people's work, decimate it, and sell it as your own." Dishonor should not be rewarded. Neither should dishonesty.

gaius• 17 years ago

If you're writing a consumer application and there are great libraries available for much of the functionality, you'd probably use them, right?

If the license on them permitted it, yes. If FOSS advocates want respect for the GPL, then you've got to respect other peoples licenses too.

teej• 17 years ago

To be fair, Danger Mouse is a lot more than just Gnarls Barkley. He's a competent producer with credits on a dozen albums in the past 6 years. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danger_Mouse_(DJ)

aswanson3• 17 years ago

We are all ripoff artists, myname. Every sound, thought, experience is nothing more than a rearrangement of what already is. There is nothing new under the sun.

pj4• 17 years ago

This is a really lame idea and easy to disprove. Go back in time long enough and there were /no/ ideas, therefore, there had to be at least one original idea. If there had to be at least one original idea, there can be many original ideas.

There are lots of new things under the sun.

Edit: I apologize for the lame part. It's not really lame, that was an emotional response.

Alterlife• 17 years ago

And yet... every with every inteligent rearrangement of said existing 'sounds', 'thoughts' and feelings, we create and experiance new and wonderful things.

dsil• 17 years ago

That's like saying this website is one big ripoff. Mixing and matching content from other people to create something new is totally valid.

ericwaller• 17 years ago

Here's the NPR stream they mentioned: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1041295...

mikedouglas• 17 years ago

Edit: bad link.

nickmolnar• 17 years ago

That Rapidshare link isn't a valid RAR file. I posted a working torrent of the album here: http://neekolas.tumblr.com/post/108678640/my-first-torrent

rms• 17 years ago

The 192 KB/s version is 65.4MB.

Danger Mouse's EMI-killed CD will be released as a blank CD-R, just add download

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