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Post by trashcanman on Mar 26, 2014 22:02:38 GMT 2
How big are the Wu-Tang Clan's balls? Big enough to circumvent everything we know about creating and marketing music, apparently. www.craveonline.com/music/articles/666705-wtf-new-wu-tang-clan-albumONE COPY. Nobody gets to buy or download this album. Charging people just to hear the album at showings? That is fucking bold. I doubt it would be as profitable as just selling the album, but I think it's pretty cool that these guys are trying something that has never been done before and treating their album the same way that great works of art are treated; as something rare and unique that you have to go to great lengths to see (or in this case, hear). I won't be paying any $30-$50 to hear an album just once, but props to the Wu for doing something different. |
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Post by Ben on Mar 26, 2014 23:41:05 GMT 2
I don't know what to think of this exactly. On the one hand, it's such a crazy concept I can't help but like and respect it. On the other hand, it's so nutty it seems like a charade. Who's going to go see that thing in an exhibit? I like cover art as much as the next guy, but I much prefer to actually listen to my music than just look at it (as I'm sure everyone else does). Maybe some collector will shell out multiple thousands of dollars for this thing, but what's to stop him from making it available via YouTube or a torrent (other than to protect his own investment)? As for hearing it live, I'd pass. Most of the time I can't get a good feel for songs the first time I hear them, let alone hearing them for the first time at a concert. I'd have to see the Clan 5 times just to figure out how much I dig the album (but maybe that's the point?).
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Post by trashcanman on Mar 27, 2014 19:12:52 GMT 2
Yeah, I don't hope that this catches on, but points for creativity. They aren't planning on selling it, just ending it around the world as an exhibit like a famous painting. But for $30-$50, ODB needs to rise from a sarcophagus and freestyle some verses over the beat during the playing to make it worth the charge.
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Post by Ben on Mar 27, 2014 22:46:28 GMT 2
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Post by trashcanman on Mar 28, 2014 19:37:02 GMT 2
Ah, I see. Not the way I'd have done it, but whatever. They seem pretty confident that whoever buys it isn't going to let it leak. I'd think that motherfucker would need armed guards at all time to keep it off of the net.
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Post by Ben on Mar 28, 2014 20:28:30 GMT 2
The article I linked to speculated a label might buy it and then distribute it in the traditional fashion, but that just reeks of a legal mess. I can't exactly legally distribute copies of the rare music I've purchased just because I paid a lot of money for it. And the last thing the Clan wants is for it to end up online.
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Post by The Curmudgeon on Mar 30, 2014 1:34:03 GMT 2
I read about this a couple of days ago. Very strange. Very cool as well, though, and in today's era where music is worthless and taken for granted, for someone to actually not just put a worth on their work but to actually treat it like it's fucking priceless ART..yeah, I dig that a lot.
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