Apparently, the embattled DJ/producer is in trouble yet again with his label(EMI)over copyrighted material that makes up part of his new collaboration with artists as disparate as Iggy Pop, Sparklehorse, David Lynch and the Pixies' Black Francis.
His cheeky, Web 2.0 way of giving EMI the finger is by releasing his new cd as a blank. That's right, no music. Just an empty place for the album to be put. I wonder if anyone will buy it? We all know that there will be someone who buys it and is upset when s/he finds that it is devoid of music. Maybe a backwoods DangerMouse fan with no computer, just a walkman and a backpack?
In tribute to DM's creativity, I will be free-downloading the album this evening and giving it a listen. I bet it is good. I like Gnarls Barkley and DM's record with MF Doom, and of course "the Grey Album".
I hate to lay the hard truth on you, but we don't need any more proof than this that the people who've been selling us music for the past 50+ years don't really care about art, right? (cue headslap)
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