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I don’t know if you’ll find this awesome, but it is! A recording artist offering a full-album free mp3 straight from their official website? No pfft fees no viviparous tricks just plain and simple “come-on-it’s-free” thing! Ladies and gentlemen, Harvey Danger.

Their album entitled “Little by Little” may be downloaded in a .zip platform or via BitTorrent from their website.

Why did they do that? According to our old friend wiki:

Citing “a long-held sense that the practice now being demonized by the music biz as ‘illegal’ file sharing can be a friend to the independent musician,” Harvey Danger released their third album, Little By Little…, as a free download via BitTorrent a week after its release, and directly from the band’s website a week after that. Within two months of release, the album had been downloaded 100,000 times, while the first pressing of physical copies (packaged with a disc of bonus material) had nearly sold out.

Whoever invented music piracy has to thank these guys for the elation. I mean for the perversion of the idea of music piracy. A socially branded negative concept has, in the long run, proven for itself some practicable and verifiable output of positive complexion.

Being bad may not mean being bad at all.

I salute their courage. I am sure this has made some considerable impact as and by way of example to the music industry or whatever so they are calling it.

Allow me then to propagate the good news to every self-proclaimed “freeloader” in this worldwhatwhen. Here is another freebie for you guys. Click on! yummyyyeaah..

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