{"id":351,"date":"2006-08-23T21:05:16","date_gmt":"2006-08-23T13:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/2006\/08\/23\/dont-download-this-song\/"},"modified":"2006-08-23T21:12:09","modified_gmt":"2006-08-23T13:12:09","slug":"dont-download-this-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/2006\/08\/23\/dont-download-this-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t Download This Song!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cool song from Weird Al Yankovic<\/a>‘s MySpace page. Go listen to it there if it’s too slow here.<\/p>\n

[audio:dontdownloadthis.mp3]<\/p>\n

You can download a higher quality version of the song from http:\/\/www.dontdownloadthissong.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Now excuse me while I go rob a liquor store while selling crack and running school kids down with a car. :P<\/p>\n

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<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

“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.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And that is an artist that deserves respect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cool song from Weird Al Yankovic‘s MySpace page. Go listen to it there if it’s too slow here. [audio:dontdownloadthis.mp3] You can download a higher quality version of the song from http:\/\/www.dontdownloadthissong.com Now excuse me while I go rob a liquor … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[112,273,288,167,289],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}