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- liamneville, on 11/14/2007, -1/+19Buried for no mention of Trent and his Garageband releases
- bmdubya, on 11/13/2007, -1/+13Trent Reznor will be when he releases the next NIN cd. If it is anything like the Saul William's cd he just produced, you will have the option of downloading the cd for free, or you can donate $5 to the band. I can't wait.
- Andrewbot, on 11/14/2007, -0/+7Um, no Tay Zonday?
- swabfalling, on 11/13/2007, -1/+7Good article. The revolution is upon us.
- mikeruiz7, on 11/13/2007, -0/+6What, no Wilco? They released Yankee Hotel Foxtrot streaming off their site in 2001, and have done the same with every album since. Not to mention they stream live shows and give free digital downloads of unreleased songs that aren't included on the album.
- Burento, on 11/13/2007, -0/+5See that is gonna be worth all the sales in free advertisement alone.
- RyanDFA, on 11/13/2007, -0/+5Metallica?
- sclark, on 11/14/2007, -2/+6where....is....Prince...??? Someone should go check out what he has done.... and for how long!
- hilandhall, on 11/13/2007, -0/+4arctic monkeys are highlighted because they had a myspace page? How revolutionary. The article even states that it was a fan who put it up and not them.....
- kenman345, on 11/13/2007, -1/+5what about Trent Reznor?
- kenvsryu, on 11/13/2007, -0/+3http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_D
- ThecNiqueMan, on 11/13/2007, -0/+3DAVID BOWIEEEEE!!!!!
The first to use the web and offer a free mp3 of a song in 96 I think. - zombies187, on 11/13/2007, -0/+3Dail-a-song was on the phone for FREE everyday since 1985.
- mercurysquad, on 11/13/2007, -1/+4So let's see,
Aerosmith for offering a rejected B-side track for download in 1994
Arctic Monkeys for having a fan-created Myspace page
Kylie Minogue for announcing a fansite
WTF is this article on about?
Three of the 6 are nowhere close to being called a "Digitial Music Pioneer", with or without the extra i - BrainsForDinner, on 11/13/2007, -0/+3Also, David Bowie was the Goblin King. Just, you know, FYI...
- acidbathfan, on 11/13/2007, -2/+4anyone remember the Megadeth, Arizona website in the 90's ?
- NoodleGuy, on 11/14/2007, -0/+2I too was going to mention TMBG. Not only for the reasons listed above, but also for the TMBG unlimited feature they had through eMusic in 2000. Releasing new music monthly without the restrictions of making a full album out of it.
THEY release a new free MP3 all the time for subscribers to their newsletter, and have been streaming music for a while with the alarm clock. Not to mention that THEY also release every concert in MP3 format on their website - this is something unheard of in the music industry. - BrainsForDinner, on 11/13/2007, -0/+2They actually do a lot as far as live downloads, so you can own a quality recording of a show you were actually at. Or, if you're just a hardcore fan and want lots of live stuff. I think Barenaked Ladies has been doing the same thing for the past 3 or 4 years, too. Some other bands as well, I'm sure. It's a sweet idea, I think.
- Samzo, on 11/13/2007, -0/+2PHISH! For ***** sake, they had one of the first online communities for live show trading!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phish - yacks, on 11/13/2007, -0/+2(718) 387-6962 Free when you call from work.
Also, TMBG were also the first major label recording artist to release a cd fully in mp3 format online.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They_might_be_giants
and not to mention that one of the John's has been pretty vocal in the tech aspect of the music business in terms of downloading and how the record business needs to learn to embrace it better :)
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/law/july-dec03/musi ... - thefreshpage, on 11/13/2007, -0/+1very interesting article....will be interesting to see how this translates for electronic music artists! Going to see if we can do a write up on our music blog about this in very near future.... http://www.thefreshpage.com/blog
- inactive, on 11/13/2007, -0/+1Very nice read! I'm really starting to like your stories!
- Abomonog, on 11/13/2007, -0/+1Reznor's already been there. Check out "The Limitless Potential". First time a major band has ever released an entire cd for free online.
- krye, on 11/13/2007, -0/+1Even though their latest album has like 6 different versions all sold in different stores, The Smashing Pumpkins did give away a full album and 3 EP's back in 2000. Machina II had a 5 vinyl printout, all 5 sets of vinyls were given either to known fans or friends and a radio station with the instructions of giving it out to the people. You can still download it anywhere. I mean, it counts for something, doesn't it?
By the way, great article. - icenineiv, on 11/13/2007, -0/+1No Beastie Boys? Didn't they offer a bunch of songs for free on their site around the time napster was gaining popularity?
- Abomonog, on 11/13/2007, -0/+1Agreed. But they're only remixes not covers. The performances are still NiN.
- TheDave243, on 11/13/2007, -0/+1The world of music dispersement is completely different now and its exciting. While I love the direction it is going in, everyone please support your local independent record stores, while we still have them around.
- anti_hax0r, on 11/13/2007, -1/+2what about reading the other comments?
- BrainsForDinner, on 11/13/2007, -0/+1I remember there was a Megadeth internet service and I got screwed out of 80 bucks, which was never paid back. They kept charging me and the service didn't work.
- Abomonog, on 11/13/2007, -0/+1Yeah but that was started as fan based. Phish just allowed it to happen.
- CDRaff, on 11/14/2007, -0/+1And they released all those a capella tracks for remixers.
- Abomonog, on 11/13/2007, -0/+1damned Digg scripting ***** up again.
- CDRaff, on 11/14/2007, -0/+1What about the man made by the internet, John Coulton?
- NoodleGuy, on 11/13/2007, -0/+1If Arctic Monkeys make the list for a MySpace page then Jonathan Coulton should have made it for Thing-a-week.
- michaelGregoire, on 11/13/2007, -0/+1UM... Aerosmith! The corporate rockers to beat them all!??? Bowie... yes... Gabriel.... eh.... kinda.... where the hell is Prince? Where the hell is Public Enemy. What a f'n biggoted article.
Prince and PE should be at the TOP of the list. - inactive, on 11/13/2007, -0/+1None of these guys would be nothing without Dave Smith and Wendy Carlos.
Robert Moog if you want to but he was analog. Carlos helped pioneer the Digital transition using Dave Smith's MIDI that EVERYONE uses. - CDRaff, on 11/14/2007, -0/+1Prince is not there because of his recent anti-internet craziness.
- iEnigma, on 11/14/2007, -0/+1Trent Reznor released multitrack files for various songs over the internet, encouraged Saul Williams to use digital distribution while remaining an independent artist, and will release new NIN in a similar fashion. Instead, we get some chick who plans on having a social networking site on the list.
By the way, Chuck D released one of his albums for free via P2P networks. - Abomonog, on 11/13/2007, -1/+1Not. Metallica tried ardently to squash the online music industry. Even went to congress to whine over it.
- Gizza, on 11/13/2007, -1/+1Not only that, but buy causing Napster to close down they helped in making dozens of other P2P programs to come out.
- mercurysquad, on 11/13/2007, -2/+2Absolutely. For prompting all ratio-based ftp sites back in the day to offer Metallica tracks for unlimited download solely as a protest against them.
- nikitad, on 11/13/2007, -6/+0http://cddj.ru/
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