I simply cannot imagine how this will work, but I actually wouldn’t be all that surprised to find that at the end of the day, they make money.
The CD case looks beautiful, and I’m willing to bet that there’s a fair amount of demand for new Wu-Tang. The whole “listening tour” thing seems very strange to me, but if they can incorporate other pleasant parts of the listening experience to sitting in a room with thirty other people listening to the album on headphones and attach a high level of social prestige to having participated in it, then yeah, it might work.
Hell, I’m giving them free press, just in admiration of the creativity, whether it works or not.
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Well, dang, I was going to throw this on Linky Friday, but I’ll just leave it here.
http://www.avclub.com/article/wu-tang-clan-releasing-single-copy-album-you-can-o-202691
[shakes head sadly] Scooped by Burt on the Wu-Tang. I should just hand in my Shaolin card now.Report
Sorry about that! I was just too tickled by the thing to restrain myself and had no idea you’d submitted it to Vikram for tomorrow’s Linky Friday.Report
Oh, I hadn’t submitted it. Was just gonna drop it in comments. I really should check my e-mail soon…Report
Also, if you can’t help but post about Wu Tang, we’ll make a hip hop fan out of you yet!Report
He brought the ruckus.Report
To a museum.
Maybe I should show up to one of these events and (yo) bum rush the show.Report
Semi-related because there was a link to it on the article:
http://www.avclub.com/article/yo-la-tengo-will-also-be-part-parks-and-recreation-202769
I am absolutely fascinated by how Gen X rock stars in their middle age.Report
Also, in terms of making a record difficult to listen to: Your move, Flaming Lips. Encase the next one in diamond and shoot it into the sun or something.Report
That album will be on the net within 24-48 hours of the first three or four listening concerts.Report
I guarantee enterprising people are recording counterfeit Wu tracks right now to seed out there as pranks, and maybe even for a quick buck or two, if they can get suckers to pay a nominal fee before they are exposed.Report
I hope they perform at least one show with a holgraphic ODB.Report
For the children.Report
For the world.Report
What happens if the CD begins skipping?Report
What if starts doing a crip walk?
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Where’s my embedded video?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gREIBeiXgakReport
I was in a (very) short-lived band once, and we had some ideas of how to do albums. First thought was that we would sell blank tapes, then go to your house, play in your basement and record it on a stereo. Every album would be an original! Of course, sometimes we might get more experimental, but, hey, it’d be an original!
The other idea was to release a Box Set right away, just to be pretentious. That morphed into the idea that we’d release a box set, but each disc would be a different track, so you’d have play all discs at exactly the same time to hear the songs.
We did not take ourselves particularly seriously.Report
each disc would be a different track, so you’d have play all discs at exactly the same time to hear the songs.
Was this before or after Zaireeka? If the Lips ripped your idea off, let’s get ’em!Report
Summer of ’97. THEY SCREWED US!Report