Self-Piracy for Fun and Profit
Oct. 28th, 2008 05:16 pm
I've just created a torrent for ToRights
(the most recent non-commercial DeathBoy album).
If you haven't listened already, and like your filthy torrent downloads, then by all means go grab it, and if you have a machine that could help seed this torrent on a more long term basis, then please do grab it and do just that.
Also, of course, please do spread the music around ;) - including adding the torrent to other trackers, if you're that way inclined.
If this all works easily enough, I will be converting the entire back catalogue to torrents, and may well make a mega-torrent to rival the idea of making DeathBoy: The Lot, which I never did manage to do.
(and which, by now is too big to fit on a single DVD, I think. shit.)
Another idea that I'm really keen on, a few friends have mentioned that they've made mix-tapes of entirely DeathBoy tracks (which I've also done, to collect all the trip-hop, or all the electronic tracks, for instance). If people have collections like this they'd like to share with the public, give me a yell. You'd only need to give me the tracklisting (unless you've beat-mixed it) as obviously, I've got all the files :P
Ideally, I'd like to be able to offer these as both streaming previews and fully downloadable bundles, so if anyone's got any ideas for cool ways to do this, give me a yell.
[edit]: Another thing - this "release" is a bit spartan, mostly I wanted to see if I could actually suss it all out, but now I'm realising I could include all sorts of shit in the torrent (album art, lyrics, notes, etc). A lot of the tracks already contain things like the band URL and the lyrics embedded in the Mp3, but not all of them. Do people prefer extras like this, or would they rather just download a torrent with ONLY mp3s in it? I know I sometimes get annoyed with additional files and delete them regardless. Thoughts?
[edit2]: Also, any demand for FLACs of albums? (those which I have the source files for still could be quite high quality, potentially). I know I'm making a rod for my own back here...