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April 18, 2005
Your [mildly illegal] Internet jukebox
Looking for that hard to find music track? You might want to check out an MP3 blog. The people who run sites like Flux Blog, Music for Robots and Tofu Hut, and Moistworks just love sharing their enthusiasm for music.
They post tracks - copyrighted tracks - for a week to 10 days, and take them down when companies complain. Little wonder then, that they're attracting thousands of visitors a day.
Matthew Perpetua of Fluxblog — which began in 2002, and is acknowledged as a pioneer of MP3 blogging — says a lot of labels are happy to have the exposure. But Coldplay's studio got hot under the collar when an unfinished track found its way online.
Posted by cw at April 18, 2005 06:55 PM
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I had a quick look at the mp3 sites to which you link and am I right in deducing that their definition of "classical" is any head banging noise that predates last Thursday week?
This tends to confirm my suspicion that the famous ipod revolution is for people who are either deaf or culturally stunted. As I write this I am listening to real music -- Mozart, as it happens -- on the electric gramophone and thinking that I don't really want Mozart wherever I go. Are we going to shut out environmental sounds altogether? No birds. No running water. No wind in the leaves. Only the Bloody Grateful Manure Pile everywhere and at all times going bang bang bang in our heads? Have we gone completely stark staring mad?
Posted by: Apal at April 19, 2005 09:45 AM