I’ve been spending quite a bit of time lately re-installing various operating systems, to hopefully get to the end of my hard disc fiasco. Of course with each iteration of Xubuntu or Fedora Core, there has been quite a bit of time where I have been fiddling around to make sure the system is working without errors.
In these scenarios it is almost impossible for me to concentrate in complete silence; I need some music.
As both Fedora and Ubuntu are supportive of free formats, listening to my MP3’s will have to wait until I am ready to go through the process of installing codecs and such stuff.
I have but one album that I listen to when in the infantile stages of installing these OS’es (sic?);
Little by Little – Harvey Danger.
You know these guys? I don’t know about the rest of the world, but Aussies should remember their song ‘Flagpole Sitta’. Well their latest album (almost a year old now though) is available for a free download from their website.
You can download it in MP3 or OGG Vorbis format, and while I don’t know how free it is (in the purest sense of the word), but they explicitly say download it, share it with your friends. Check it out.
I first came aross the album last November, and have been listening to the album quite a lot. I would like the CD because FLAC sounds much better than the lossy OGG Vorbis. Sadly it’s only just been released in Aus and is quite expensive. At around $37 it’s much more expensive than buying it straight from the artists, $12 plus $10 shipping to Aus. Record labels want to know why their sales are down?
I’m still deciding whether or not to get it (if I lived in the US, I’d be on it like … ), but I just wanted to give a thumbs up for a ballsy decision by the band to try putting their album on the net. Not to mention that I simply think it’s a great album. I just can’t stop listening to it.
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