Oct 20 2008
mystro2b’s daily links 102008
Basically, you upload a song of your choice (in MP3 format) and then add either “Cowbell” or “Christopher Walken” to it by means of the provided slide bars. When this has been dealt with, you hit the “Gimme more cowbell!” button and away you go (or away go Messrs. Walken and Ferell, that depends on the vantage point of the user).
Check out some Weezer with more cowbell I created:
| Make your own at MoreCowbell.dj | ||
Tomorrow, Lala Media Inc. will announce an interesting new approach to selling digital music. It’s based on a new type of license it secured with the four major labels and 170,000 indie labels, that lets consumers pay a dime to own a song that they can listen to whenever they want so long as it’s on the Web (Actually, the first listen is free; you pay your dime if you want to listen more than that). Then, if you decide you want to download the song to your hard drive or listen to it on your iPod or any other device, you can buy it for another $.79 (or $.89 if you haven’t taken that middle step of paying the dime). That gets you a DRM-free MP3 version of the song.
There is a lot of discussion these days about free music and the decline of the power and influence of the major record labels. However, I would argue that music has always been free in one form or another, throughout history and that the relationship between the artists and their fans – the artists and their patrons is what really matters.
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