While I’m writing this post I’m listening to Yuppie Flu’s new album, Fragile Forest.
Yuppie Flu are an Italian band that plays lo-fi pop arranged with analog electronic keyboards [from Last.FM, I suck at recognizing genres]. Their songs are in English, so go ahead and look for them, it’s really worth it.
The new album came out today, with the cool formula that Radiohead pioneered last year: pay-as-much-as-you-want. Yes, even nothing, for a 160 kbit/s, MP3, DRM Free version of the album.
I bought it and I’m not telling you how much I paid. It’s not zero and it’s not 1 euro. But it’s not the 15€ they offer for the physical CD version, nor the 25€ CD + T-shirt version. I strongly encourage you to try the album, and pay, even a symbolical sum, for it. This is how music distribution should work.
Get it here. It’s the homepage, but the links to buy with paypal (not incredibly usable, to be honest, but maybe it’s monday’s Human Computer Interaction test speaking for me :-) )
Stay tuned, more to come.
-– EDIT:
I posted before learning of this kind of contest they have. Apparently, by posting on my blog about the new album, I might win a ticket for one of their concerts, and give away one to one of my readers.
But I have to set up a contest as well! So…the reader that will post the best comment (i.e. the most convincing one: BE ORIGINAL) is going to come to the concert with me, should I get the tickets. Start fighting, multiple entries allowed :)
…come on guys, not so fast…
Liberamente costretta, lascio un commento. Posso andare al concerto con il gestore di questo sito?!
I think that this can be the future of music business (I hope so)
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