Now that Reznor has left the major labels in his dust, he releases this new album by Saul Williams in the same fashion as Radiohead basically, with a few notable improvements. You have a choice of $5 for a higher quality version of the digital download, or free if you can live with a 192Kbps mp3 version of the album, which is a perfectly listenable amount of compression. The site was perfectly simple and ran smoothly as I entered my email address and downloaded the zip file in like 2 minutes. I am not familiar with the music of Saul Williams, so I grabbed the record free. If it rocks my world I’ll happily give them $5 for it. I think that is a perfectly reasonable price for a full album, Apple are you listening? I’m sure Apple knows it’s the major labels that don’t. Here is a better pricing structure for iTunes….99cents if you just want individual songs, $5 for the whole album DUH! I predict sales of whole albums will go up enough to cover the difference…give it a try, or lose this war…the tide is turning and moving swiftly away from you leeching money from artists and ripping off consumers with inflated cd prices, this could be your last chance.

Saul Williams- Niggy Stardust

I was laughing at a recent post on Digg touting the skills of Neil Pert, and proclaiming him the best living drummer. This sent me searching for King Crimson videos and I dug up this gem from 1981 of them playing Discipline, and a few snippets of Fripp and Bruford chatting about it. You gotta love the dynamic of Fripp and Belew, so awesome paired together. Both are so cool in very different ways, and Bill Bruford is such a great understated drummer.