The Flashbulb Uploads Latest Album To Torrent Sites
I had mentioned in a previous comment to Big Jar that if he liked Aphex Twin, he should give The Flashbulb’s “Kirlian Selections” a chance… It’s an amazing album that is something I think most people should at least listen to once. Little did I know when I made that comment that The Flashbulb was just about to release his newest album directly to a major torrent site. If you were to “pirate” the latest album by The Flashbulb “Soundtrack To A Vacant Life” from one of the many torrent sites out there, it was most likely uploaded by the artist himself (Benn Jordan). In an html file inside the torrent you will find this message…
Hello listener…downloader…pirate…pseudo-criminal…
If you can read this, then you’ve more than likely downloaded this album from a peer to peer network or torrent.
You probably expect the rest of this message to tell you that you’re hurting musicians and breaking just about every copyright law in the book. Well, it won’t tell you that.
What I would like to tell you is that my record label understands that a large portion of people pirate music because it is easier than buying it. CDs scratch easily, most pay-per-download sites have poor quality and ****ty DRM protection, and vinyl is near impossible to find or ship without hassle.
In many cases I wonder why people buy CDs at all anymore. A few like the tangible artwork, some haven’t adapted to MP3s yet, but most do it because they have a profound love for music and want to support the artists making it. Kind of restores your faith in humanity for a moment eh?So, now what?
Like the album? About to go “support the artist” on iTunes?
Well, don’t.
Alphabasic is currently in a legal battle against Apple because NONE of our material (Sublight Records included) receives a dime of royalty from the vast amount of sales iTunes has generated using our material.Want to buy a CD just to show your support?
If you don’t particularly like CDs, don’t bother.
Retailers like Best Buy and Amazon spike the price so high that their cut is often 8 times higher than the artist’s. Besides, most CDs are made out of unrecyclable plastic and leave a nasty footprint in your environment.If you do particularly like CDs, buy them from the label (in our case, alphabasic.com). After manufacturing costs are recuperated, our artists usually receive over 90% of the actual money coming out of your wallet.
In addition, all of our physical products are made out of 100% recycled material.Want to show your support?
Go here and browse our library of lossless, DRM-free downloads.
Already have that?
Then feel free to donate whatever you want to your favorite artist. 100% will go directly to them.
Hell, you can even donate a penny just to thank the artist.If you really like ‘The Flashbulb - Soundtrack To A Vacant Life’ and want to show your support without it going to greedy retailers, distributors, and coked-up label reps, then click the button below.
[link to http://www.alphabasic.com/index2.htm ]
If you send us your mailing address, Alphabasic may occasionally send you various goodies (overstocks, stickers, even rare CDs) in appreciation and encouragement for your support.
Thanks for reading.
Who knows if my little business plan here will work to fund new releases, but even failure is better than the crappy label/distributor/retailer system musicians have suffered from for over 50 years.
We hope you enjoy the music as much as we do releasing it.
Finally, if you plan on sharing this release, please include this file. The only reason it is here is to show the listener where he can support his favorite artists!Benn Jordan
CEO - Alphabasic Records
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I would highly encourage everyone to find this album, download it, and if you like it, send the man a donation. Perhaps we can all encourage more artists to start supporting a system where a middleman (the RIAA and money grubbing record labels) are not needed.. If you needed a reason to stop buying shitty DRMed/poorly encoded Apple iTunes music, you heard it from Weird Al, now from another artist. DON’T BUY FROM ITUNES. Almost nothing gets to the artist.
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Peace..
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Global Climate Change…
This got posted to reddit.com with a title along the lines of “Pascal’s Wager Applied to Global Warming” which isn’t really what he is using (a grid which works with Pascal’s Wager, but God and Global Warming fall into vastly different “testability” categories), as he states in one of his videos (there are quite a few… check out this link and hit more under the “About This Video” to see the order to watch them in)…
Blake got me interested in finding out more about some of the specifics of Global Climate Change, and this was a very valuable resource for me.. Anyways, enjoy this intro to his series, and check out the rest if you like it… (Bit of a ZeFrank influence, but that isn’t necessarily a bad thing…)
Gorillas are amazing creatures
Show this to all of your Creationist friends:
Paris Hilton on David Letterman
When you are a hunter in the wild, toying with your prey is an unaffordable luxury. That is a pasttime for domesticated cats who have become consumed by ennui.
No–you must be patient and wait for the proper moment to strike. As you stalk your prey, you must move quickly when you view your window of opportunity. Leaving no time for indecision, you must strike swiftly, inflicting the mortal wound until your target cries out one last time, the blood gurgling and frothing from its dying lips, as its shivering carcass cascades into the dust, for evermore.
