Green Day: cashing in on P2P with pre-printed CD-Rs
By Peter Rojas 
posted September 28th 2004 3:21AM
posted September 28th 2004 3:21AM
Back in the halcyon days of the mid-Nineties (when we was punk) we actually recall scrawling the word "SELLOUTS!" on
the covers of the Green Day LPs that turned up at that college radio station we deejayed at. Which is why it's
ever-so-hard to dish out props to Green Day for encouraging (and cashing in on) people downloading their music online
with this set of blank CD-Rs that come with custom-printed Green Day artwork, so your "mixes" don't have to look quite
so homemade. So we'll give 'em some props, but we're now gonna scrawl "DIY or Die" on these if we ever see
them for sale in a store.
[Via BoingBoing]
Surely this removes the point of internet downloaded music... If you want a CD with the album art on it, why not buy the album? The cost of downloading an album from iTunes would be $9.99, then add a couple of $ for the CD-Rs and bingo!, your album is the same price as the one you could have got at the shops except you are still missing the crystal case insert!!!
It makes no sense!
a small minority of people on the internet use iTunes to download their music. Most use FREE/unadministered person2person networks like Kazaa/DC++/etc... where they can share the files on their PC with millions of other users, and in exchange download files from those millions of users.
You can log on and be downloading a full high quality mp3 version of Greenday's Nimrod in about 15 seconds. It'll probably be done downloading in a few minutes. Sure beats paying $9.99 at iTunes or more at a B&M.
David, I think this might be geared more towards people that are just going to download the music off something like WinMX, not the people that are going to download a legitimate copy from something like iTunes store.
Ah those whacky japesters Greenday... whatever will they come up with next when they're not entertaining the kids with their anarcho-pop-punk...
you can purchase these at j&r music world, they have them right next to american idiot.
I think the album is worth buying, Give something back for their hard work