Sep 12 2008

Marillion Outdoes Radiohead, Releases Album on BitTorrent

  • Written by soulxtc
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Asks fans to donate what they can if they enjoy listening to “Happiness is the Road.”

British rock band Marillion has become the latest to shake-up the record industry by releasing its new album “Happiness is the Road” on BitTorrent.

Fans can download a copy at their leisure and without the fuss that was associated with the Radiohead’s “In Rainbows” release where you had to register first, and even then were greeted with a low bitrate copy of the album.

“While we don’t condone illegal file-sharing, it’s a fact of life that a lot of music fans do it,” said keyboard player Mark Kelly.

Marillion hopes to recoup money by sending messages about their tour and merchandise to people who download a copy of their latest album.

“We want to know who our file-sharing fans are,” he added. “If they like our new album enough, then we want to persuade them to at least come and see us on tour.”

The band, who like Radiohead have cut-out the record label, were one of the first to release records through their own website in the 1990s.

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Comments

  1. nappy-rash

    Go old rockers go!

  2. open_universe

    No need to torrent. THEY HAVE A YOUTUBE ACCOUNT.

    http://www.youtube.com/user/marilliononline

  3. mountain_rage

    Hope this is a growing trend musicians embracing technology and bands realizing the potential of self distribution. Its my opinion that if more and more big artist pursue this model so will the smaller bands and we may finally have a movement the labels can’t shut down. Even if they lock down the internet these artist would still be there offering their music for free. This would in effect keep music prices in line with what it should be prevent labels from trying to sell the 20$ album again.

  4. Kewbase

    Has anuone tried this? I guess not!

    They have released this as WMA files with DRM. Play the file and a website opens.

    This is same scheme those P2P spammers use. Stay a way from this!! This definitely not the way

  5. open_universe

    I took a quick peek at the torrents available some are titled as “No DRM”.

    Didn’t bother downloading it tho. YouTube is so much easier.

  6. megarock

    I downloaded it. I hit play. A DRM message popped up. I hit delete.

    If you really want your music out there DON’T DRM IT.

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