'Copy our music' urges rock band

[method77]

A new rock group featuring former members of The Clash and Generation X has taken a novel approach to the issue of piracy by urging their fans to copy their music.

Carbon Silicon make all their recordings freely available online, and actively encourage bootlegging or filming of their gigs.

They even attack the current waves of litigation surrounding illegally copied music in their song Gangs Of England, which includes the line, "if you want the record, press record".

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[slum_goddess]

"Everyone's going to say, 'hang on - if they've got it already, why are they going to buy the record?' But what we find is actually, people really like buying the records."

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James said that he considered the internet to be the "most exciting thing that's happened to rock and roll".

thank fuck, they get it. :) but i've been here and here as well and can't find any music.

[Ken]

I don't think they're providing the music themselves.

They simply "don't care" if people distribute their material on P2P networks and such.