Mastodon Song Leaks, Band Mad 2006-08-19 by Stormy Smiley Face | 8 Comments | Mastodon's Brann Dailor told MTV News recently that a certain English journalist leaked the song "Blood Mountain" last week and is rather unhappy about it. "Blood Mountain" is a song off the new album the band is currently recording.
"Hopefully one day, he'll introduce himself," Dailor joked about the journalist, who claimed he was one of the band's biggest fans. "[Our record label] traced it back to the guy who did it, and he got fired from wherever he was working. It's just so stupid. And it's such a sh---y copy. It sounds like sh--. I'm not concerned with record sales, because I think that if anyone's looking for it online to download it and listen to it, when it comes out [on September 12], they'll buy it anyways. They're fans.
"My problem is, I can equate it to when I was 11 years old," he continued, relaying a story about discovering his Christmas presents in his mother's closet a month before the holiday. "I wrapped it all back up, and then Christmas came, and I went downstairs, and I knew everything I was going to get. And that sucked. It totally ruined the whole thing. Up until then, I had never done that before and I was always really excited to wake up and open that first present. But that wasn't awesome, and I never did it again.
"When I was a kid, you had to wait for that Iron Maiden record," he recalled. "The whole thing was, this is the day it comes out, and you cannot have it before that day. But these days, with the Internet, everything just leaks. I urge people not to download it if they see it there, but I understand if they do. I want people to be excited for it and to hear it for the first time and hear it the way it was supposed to be heard."
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I have to give Brann credit. His concern seems more artistic than financial.
Hell, I was going to wait and see what others were saying about the album next month before sampling it myself anyway.
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i agree with you steerpike. But I dunno, I've heard demos that i've found around the internet and hearing the demo usually just made me want to hear the studio version even more just because demos are usually more raw in sound. Still like the man said, fans will buy the album whether they hear a leaked sh---y version or not. At least he's not going MetallicA on the guy and suing his ass for everything he's got and themsome.
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From an artistic point of view, I think that's fairly valid. Nonetheless, what can you do about it?
It also depends on everyone's way of seeing it, anyway.
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MASTODON!!! ROAR!!! GRRRRRR!!!!
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Always good to see an artist worrying about music and not money.This Message Edited On 08.20.06
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Dont download they have worked hard on that album and they deserve the money!!
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I'm sick of hearing how the internet has destroyed some certain aspects of musical enjoyment. It's 2006 you know, if you dont want your album to leak just dont give away promo copies :-p
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Amen brother.
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