More appropriate meme: "Crystal Castles are massive fail."
They take other chiptune artists songs, lay some very basic preset 8bit synth parts over it, and try to pass them off as their own. They have been caught on many occasion and always try to weasel out of it.
eric, if you read their side, the record label put it on their myspace. the band never did it, and neither was it 'released', it was put on the record labels myspace for fuck sake. QQ.
and who cares anyway, just listen to the music and enjoy. off stage antics are not going to influence what music I enjoy.
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Crystal Castles FTW.
More appropriate meme: "Crystal Castles are massive fail."
They take other chiptune artists songs, lay some very basic preset 8bit synth parts over it, and try to pass them off as their own.
They have been caught on many occasion and always try to weasel out of it.
http://gameboygenius.8bitcollective.com/wordpress/2008/05/06/crystal-castles-and-chip-music-copyright-infringements/
http://createdigitalmusic.com/2008/05/05/chiptune-music-theft-continues-crystal-castles-abuses-creative-commons-license/
http://www.pileup.com/babyart/blog/?p=130
eric, if you read their side, the record label put it on their myspace. the band never did it, and neither was it 'released', it was put on the record labels myspace for fuck sake. QQ.
and who cares anyway, just listen to the music and enjoy. off stage antics are not going to influence what music I enjoy.