Don’t Download This Song!
Cool song from Weird Al Yankovic‘s MySpace page. Go listen to it there if it’s too slow here.
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You can download a higher quality version of the song from http://www.dontdownloadthissong.com
Now excuse me while I go rob a liquor store while selling crack and running school kids down with a car. :P
Anyway, before you go wtf over it, it’s a joke. Weird Al is not the latest propangada machine of the RIAA. In fact if you visit his MySpace page, you’ll be able to play and download his song “You’re Pitiful”, a parody of the popular “You’re Beautiful” by James Blunt.
James Blunt gave his approval for the parody but his record label didn’t. Weird Al decides to screw the suits and release the song for free through the internet.
“I have a long-standing history of respecting artists’ wishes,” Yankovic writes. “So if James Blunt himself were objecting, I wouldn’t even offer my parody for free on my Web site. But since it’s a bunch of suits — who are actually going against their own artist’s wishes — I have absolutely no problem with it.”
And that is an artist that deserves respect.
August 23rd, 2006 at 11:31 pm
Lol. Nice one especially the extract that you posted.
August 24th, 2006 at 1:34 am
” “I have a long-standing history of respecting artists’ wishes,” Yankovic writes. ”
Good thing he learned from the whole Gangster’s Paradise fiasco.
August 24th, 2006 at 2:40 am
http://www.blogsrating.com/dark-mirages-blog.html
August 24th, 2006 at 8:23 am
Is there a way to download ‘You’re Pitiful’? It only lets me stream.
August 24th, 2006 at 11:24 am
Thank you. Yankovic, as always, rocks the entire world with love and righteousness.
August 24th, 2006 at 3:22 pm
For going through with free distribution, I salute you. *salutes*