orcutt989
11-16-2004, 08:54 PM
Giving away an album online isn't the way most artists end up with gold records. But it worked out that way for Wilco.
After being dropped from Reprise Records in 2001 over creative conflicts surrounding Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (http://www.wilcoweb.com/records/yhf.html), the Chicago-based band committed what some thought would be suicide -- they streamed it online for free.
Full Story (http://wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,65688,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_1)
Shove that up your ass RIAA!
After being dropped from Reprise Records in 2001 over creative conflicts surrounding Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (http://www.wilcoweb.com/records/yhf.html), the Chicago-based band committed what some thought would be suicide -- they streamed it online for free.
Full Story (http://wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,65688,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_1)
Shove that up your ass RIAA!