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MP3 blogs are hotbeds for illegal, leaked MP3s fueled by the hypemachine/googleSEO era. Basically, music blogs are kinda like ‘barely legal’ porn, trying 2 appeal to people who are eager to ‘be some of the first’ 2 feast their eyes on young pussy/twinks/new buzzbands mp3s. Blogger psychology states “If I post barely legal MP3s, I will get mad hits, and people will like my blog because I have great taste and represent a great source of popular buzzbands.”
Panda Bear’s TOMBOY is the most anticipated album of 2k10, in what has been a year known as a ’shitfest of shitty, irrelevant mp3s.’ It seems like the ‘drive to expose the leak’ has creted one of the most in-demand leaks since Animal Collective’s MerripostweatherPevilleons.
Many blogs and eMusicZines have been ‘forced’ to cover the new Panda Bear, as if it is a celeb gossip ’scoop’, racing to ‘break’ news about the new album. It truly may be the first time that the MP3 blogosphere has broken away from ’stroking the cocks’ of artists to secure exclusive debuts, and instead ‘post content as if it is BREAKING NEWS.’ The blogosphere is in a ‘questionable position’ where they must operate in some sort of ‘ethical relationship’ with artists to secure ‘debuts’ and ‘exclusive content’, but this Panda Bear coverage is sure to usher in a new era in coverage of high level artists.
Pitchfork was ‘backed into’ posting the streams after tons of low level, barely legal mp3 blogs ‘got the scoop’ and posted ’streams’ to limit their liability of posting the actual MP3 for download. They made it clear that the streams were ‘barely legal’:
NOTE: These are low-quality vinyl rips, not authorized by the artist.
I would expect this type of coverage from a ‘crappy MP3 blog’ on the hypemachine, or even popular weblog HIPSTER RUNOFF, or even lofi legend blog Guerillas Vs. Bear, but Pitchfork’s decision to ‘post unauthorized tracks’ might put Panda Bear’s live set at the Pitchfork Music Festival in jeopardy. It seems like music blogosphere is turning into ‘The Wild, Wild West’ as the end of 2k10 nears, and we are in search of a true album of the year 2 save the annual brand of 2k10.
Is Panda Bear’s leak the most in-demand leak in the history of the blogosphere?
Should music blogs ‘get more illegal’?
Should all music be free?
Have yall found the new Panda Bear on mediafire / rapidshare ?
Will TOMBOY ‘live up 2 the hype’?
Is there such thing as ‘blogger ethics’?
Are blogs supposed to maintain positive relationships with bands/artists/label representatives?
Should we wait til Panda Bear formally releases his album 4 purchase, or is it chill to listen 2 some sweet unauthorized vinyl rips?
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I think you're taking Hipster
I think you're taking Hipster Runoff way too seriously it's written as like a big joke. I love Panda Bear and Animal Collective is one of my favorite bands absolutely. He's not shy to admit that he wants the most people to hear his music as possible, and to get spread to that wide of an audience, you are trying to get out there. If Panda Bear didn't want people to get hyped on his album, he wouldn't have had PR people send his press kit to media outlets, he wouldn't have done interviews and be featured in magazines. Avey Tare has been working on the songs that will are on Down There for years and he didn't talk about the release until the album was complete and would be released a few months later, if Panda Bear didn't want so much hype on his album he wouldn't have done any press about it.
And leaks and all that just mean that people are super excited about your album. That must feel pretty good to an artist that people were dying to hear it , bad enough to put energy into finding it online. That doesn't affect more casual music fans or even more casual fans of Panda Bear, if they aren't that obsessed they'll just wait until the album comes out. Let the obsessed download , spread the word, and help pepetuate the careers of these artists forward. If people didn't spread the word and if money wasn't spent contacting media outlets and getting them to put out the artist, only the super investigative music obsessed would know about music that deserves to be heard by many more.
Maybe I'm just not far along to the point where I expect music to pay my bills, I think a lot of artists do music underneath it all because they love doing music, and people wanting your music bad enough to go great lengths to get it and share it with others, that's not a bad thing at all.
Not All Blogs Are Barely Legal
A little broadbrush with the criticism of the music blogs. Along with scores of like minded blogs The Devil Has The Best Tuna always tries to ensure that MP3s are only published with the approval of the band, their management, the label or the PR company or tracks that the band themselves have already made freely available via their website or Last.FM site.
It's broadbrush criticism that leads to poor legislation that results in innocent blogs being removed by blogger.
Having got that off my chest I agree that leaking albums is killing music and stealing food from the mouths of artists.
Paul
aka The Devil Has The Best Tuna
www.besttuna.blogspot.com
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