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  1. FrostCS

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    #1 FrostCS, Apr 27, 2004
    "Tuesday, April 27, 2004 at 15:00 JST
    LONDON — David Bowie has invited fans to bootleg his music — and he's offering prizes for the most creative theft.

    The musician's web site urges fans to mix classic Bowie songs with material from his latest album, "Reality," to create a "mash-up" — a track that uses vocals from one song superimposed over the backing tracks of another. "

    Interesting approach, obviously something you don't see many artists doing.
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    #2 134282, Apr 27, 2004
    Could this possibly be a ploy he was put up to by the music industry in an attempt to foil creative music pirates...?
     
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    #3 vraa, Apr 27, 2004
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    #4 96impalaSS, Apr 27, 2004
    David Bowie has to be one of the coolest people in the industry. Anyone that's friends with Trent Reznor is cool in my book anyday.
     
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    #5 MikeZ_NJ, Apr 27, 2004
    I've found that in many cases, the artists aren't the ones caring... it's the record execs. Artists make pennies off the CDs; most revenue is from touring and merchandise.

    I'm probably heavily biased, but I think one of the most "open" bands out there is Weezer. They don't mind bootlegging (and encourage it by letting certain fans tape the shows), and during the writing/recording of their last album, they released mp3 demos of nearly every single song that got recorded on their website. Interestingly enough, the record company was NOT pleased and pulled the media off of the site for a while.

    Sure, the artists get screwed by many other things, but falling CD sales is lower on the list than the Geffens and Sonys of the world might have you think. The problem is that those companies are trying to stifle the technology rather than embrace it.

    I applaud David Bowie, Weezer, Pearl Jam, Phish, and all the other artists who succeed because they don't drive away their fans (like Metallica does) for using new technology that the record companies don't know how to market.

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