They Might Be Downloads
July 16th 2004
They Might Be Giants has done a great thing — they have made all of their (recent) albums available for purchase and download without DRM. As in, as non-restrictive mp3s. 256 kilobit LAME encoded mp3s. Now, I’m hesitant to pay anything for Apple’s 128kbps AAC iTunes songs (and I haven’t yet, and I’ve told them why many times), but I’ll jump at a chance to download great music for the same price at very high quality. Their latest single you may know from a certain flash movie, and it’s a great song worthy of a download. Especially for only 99 cents. And all the cash goes directly to the band — no record company or popular music store in between. It’s just good music and people being smart about it. Go take a look.