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Mashup artist Danger Mouse, in response to the shelving of his latest solo effort, has just flashed the boniest middle finger possible at the staggering record industry.
Although already available for free streaming via NPR, Dark Night of the Soul will be released as a typical jewel case containing artwork, credits, liner notes — and a blank CD-R. A message inside the case will advise buyers to download his new material by means of music piracy, an activity the eccentric experimentalist is no stranger to himself. Outside of his involvement in electric pop duo Gnarls Barkley, Danger Mouse rose to fame when his Grey Album, a musical collision of The Beatles and Jay-Z, seeped onto P2P networks.
According to Boing Boing, EMI originally refused to finalize the album due to "legal issues." This is obviously press release rhetoric for the hailstorm of copyright infringment claims that could downpour on Danger Mouse's sample-heavy tracks.
His bold move is undoubtedly a signal to record executives everywhere that the Internet is no longer an effective supplement to physical formats, but a necessary entity on its own terms. In a sense, he is playing the snappy I'll-just-take-my-business-elsewhere-card, but instead of walking across the street to another label, he is logging onto a file sharing account. Danger Mouse's new business agent is now the Internet.
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