A Cry for Help

I haven't been around in a while, but Bil figured this subject warrants posting.

Grey Day is a protest against big record companies(EMi) that are trying to stop independant artists like DangerMouse from creating their own projects with copyrighted music. Danger Mouse mixed Jay Z's "Black Album" (not one of my favorite artists) with the Beatle's "White Album" and came up with the "Grey Album" The project was shared online between a couple friends and now thanks to the power of the Aol, it has spread everywhere. EMi ain't to happy about all this poop. They have been sending out cease and desist letters all over the place. LAME - kinda understand/not really.

Many sites are supporting the independent artist by posting the free mp3s, chaning their graphics to a grey, or linking to greytuesday.org.

My take on the whole thing: Free music = :thumbup: :thumbup" and it sounds pretty cool, but on the other hand I am confused, I thought stealing commercial music through P2P was the only real prob - sharing is such a convoluted word. I hate all this shit, I just want my 13 bucks, for price fixing on CDs in the 90s so I can buy the new Chappelle Show DVD.

Either way it's something different & cool to check out. Fight the Power!

greytuesday.org
DJ DangerMouse
illegal-art.org

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