The snowball of music freedom increases all the time.

Coldplay

On April 29, Coldplay posted a new single, Violet Hill, on their website for free download . The people there and rushed ... The site, of course, forty minutes lay bloodied. In 12 hours the song was downloaded 300,000 times, and in 24 hours more than 600,000.
The new Coldplay album - “Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends” - will be released on June 12th. In support of his planned free concerts in London and Madison Square Garden ( New York ). On Wednesday, May 7, the 7-inch vinyl single Coldplay will be released as a free application to NME (New Musical Express).
upd: already in first place
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Metallica

The idea that you can earn a lot of money on your music, and no, defend the Creator, you don’t need any “labels” at all, and finally reached the most backward sections of the population with all of us favorite Metallica.
Drummer Lars Ulrich gave here Rolling Stone an interview and said that the newest album M will be the last one under contract with Warner and now they are busy “learning from the experience of Radiohead and Trent Reznor [Nine Inch Nails]”.
But there were, there were old-good-times , when Metallica filed a lawsuit against Napster , and Lars made a statement at the US Senate Justice Committee ( here it is ). We will not forget!
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