Harvey Danger has made their entire new album available online via BitTorrent for FREE.
This is what I’ve been talking about for years now — online distribution lets the band have full control over their music, gives people who download music the ability to repay the band for their work by making a contribution and also helps promote sales of the physical copy of the album. And thanks to BitTorrent’s “downloaders also upload” method of bandwidth distribution they’re not going to have massive bandwidth bills to pay off. I just downloaded the torrent, let it load up with Azureus and it has taken less than five minutes for me to grab the entire album.
Kudos, Harvey Danger! Thickets, take note!
Additional: This is exactly what the RIAA(Recording Industry Association of America) is worried about. But it appears they’ve got enough to worry about what with them being sued for fraud and deceptive business practices.
So you grabbed the entire album. Are you going to mail them $10?
I donated $3 through Paypal. And millions more might, and they didn’t have to pay anything to get th album printed for me, or to ship it.