So I was just doing my usual business in iTunes and adding missing cover art to new albums, when a particular section in the Wikipedia entry for The Flashbulb‘s album Soundtrack to a Vacant Life caught my eye.
Basically, it’s a message from the artist that was attached to several torrents of the album that were floating around on trackers out on the internet. Far from being a bitter tirade meant to guilt-trip music piraters, it’s actually an amazingly sincere and insightful perspective from the artist on the truth behind record labels and how musicians get paid for their music. » Read the rest of this entry «