The Music Business Model Continues to Change

I read this today and laughed. If you are not familiar with Danger Mouse, he is a wonderful producer who worked with people like the Black Keys, Beck, and is one half of Gnarls Barkley. Perhaps one of his more infamous things is when he produced the Grey Album, a mash up of Jay-Z’s “The Black Album” and the Beatles “The White Album”. Genius work, I must say.

So anyway, Danger Mouse is back in the news after his latest release “Dark Night of the Soul”. He sold it with a blank CD-R inside instead of a CD. Why? Apparantly in fear of what EMI would do. From what I gather, they can sue him after his whole Grey Album ordeal.

So what are fans to do with a blank CD-R? I guess download the album from a site somewhere else and burn a copy. It is times like these that I get excited for where music is headed. I read that Green Day did the same thing a few years back, but the king of this is Trent Reznor. If you have 15 minutes, watch this YouTube Vid below from the guys from techdirt.com . It will blow your mind if you are a music geek like me…