Since I mentioned the upcoming Marillion album, Happiness is the Road, the other day, I thought I'd pimp the band's latest attempt at publicity. They've taken a page from Radiohead's playbook and made the album available online:
Rock group Marillion are to make their new album available as a free download through file-sharing websites.I like Mark's complete honesty:
But a pop-up box will appear on computer screens when the tracks are first played, encouraging fans to give the band their e-mail address.
Keyboardist Mark Kelly said downloaders would be contacted with offers of gig tickets and other merchandise, to try to make some money back for the band.
Kelly acknowledged that making Marillion's music available for free was against his natural instinct - 'we come from a long tradition of selling it'.Indeed. If you've ever wondered what Marillion is all about, here's your chance. I can't vouch for the new album yet (I'm not up on file sharing stuff, so unless somebody wants to download it and send me a copy), but I think you'll be pleasantly surprised. And you can't beat the price!
UPDATE: Those (like Red) who are curious to see what the band sounds like can download the album (track by track) from Music Glue here.
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Kudos to them! I'd never heard of them before reading about them here, but I'll be looking for that album to download.
I love that they mention that Radiohead only got 2 pounds per download when they gave away their latest in exchange for donations, and then admit that 2 pounds per album is more than they would have received from their label. How said.
The labels' days are numbered.
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