Motherfucking Bootleg Fireworks - Subtitled Version (by jefflund)
Stones Throw has partnered with Drip.fm to launch the Stones Throw Digital Discography, a subscription music service where we share every new Stones Throw release, delivered right to your inbox. Members get every new Stones Throw album, single and EP as they are released, select music from the catalog, and exclusive advance material. The subscription price is $10 a month. (via Announcing: Stones Throw Digital Discography | Stones Throw Records)
I’ve been recommending this model for yeeeeeeeeaaaarssssss!
This really makes sense, particularly for labels Stones Throw where, at least in my experience, one artist on board tends to lead you to another.
If their legal arm gets out of control? This is an industry that demands payment from summer camps if the kids sing Happy Birthday or God Bless America, an industry that issues takedown notices for a 29 second home movie of a toddler dancing to Prince. Traditional American media firms are implacably opposed to any increase in citizens’ ability to create, copy, save, alter, or share media on our own. They fought against cassette audio tapes, and photocopiers. They swore the VCR would destroy Hollywood. They tried to kill Tivo. They tried to kill MiniDisc. They tried to kill player pianos. They do this whenever a technology increases user freedom over media. Every time. Every single time.
Most of what makes a book ‘good’ is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.
— Alain de Botton
(via austinkleon)
