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Wilco Speaks on P2P Music Sharing

"Giving away an album online isn’t the way most artists end up with gold records. But it worked out that way for Wilco.

After being dropped from Reprise Records in 2001 over creative conflicts surrounding Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, the Chicago-based band committed what some thought would be suicide — they streamed it online for free.

"By conventional industry logic, file sharing hurts the odds for commercial success. Wilco front man Jeff Tweedy disagrees. Wired News caught up with him during his current tour to find out just what makes Wilco so wired."

Xeni Jardin. ‘Music Is Not a Loaf of Bread’. Wired News. Nov. 15, 2004.

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Written by sesomedia

11/20/2004 at 07:09

Posted in Web & Online