Zero Day

I got the pre-release download of MC Frontalot's new release, Zero Day. The Front has at least three super-powers: busting rhymes, being lovably geeky, and understanding his audience and their relationship with technology. Taken together, these things make me want to hug him and buy his albums. Here's the README.

MC Frontalot - Zero Day
Released: Apr 6th, 2010

This package is a full-album download from frontalot.com, purchased in the electric store by someone who felt charitable feelings towards nerdcore rappers. If that someone was you, thank you! You are/were awesome.

If that awesome person has let the data slip through his or her fingers, and the new someone who reads this readme did NOT purchase the album in front's electric store, then we here at the readme hope that 1) you enjoy the album anyway and 2) you enjoy it so much that you feel WEIRDLY COMPELLED to visit frontalot.com and purchase it after the fact. Operators are standing by.*

*actually they are just money-taking robots

**and they're not really standing by -- I think they just kind of lie dormant until their stuff-purchasing scripts are triggered by user input

I have similar feelings about Trent Reznor, actually. Oh! And subatomicglue! Those guys are awesome, if you hadn't heard about them yet.

I'm pretty willing to pay for an album, but it's way best when it's easy and convenient and you get it in a big zip file with tracks nicely labelled and the album artwork, and when the artists involved appreciate your agency as a computer-using person. And I'm about 20 times more likely to want bytes when they're Creative Commons.

Is that weird? How do you feel about this? How do you get music?