(what the fuck?!)
Forget things like emusic, pressplay, and all those other hooey services that want you to download their MP3s. Those fine fine hippies hit the nail on the head with this one:
“After a two-and-a-half-year sabbatical, [Phish] returned to the stage with a sold-out New Year’s Eve performance at Madison Square Garden. First thing Jan. 2, barely a day after the end of the long show, the band launched a new website, www.livephish.com, where fans could, for a small fee ($14.95), download CD-quality files and create a homemade three-disc set of the complete show. A booklet and artwork for the CD labels were included. If you needed supplies like cases or blank CD-Rs, you could buy them via the “dry goods” section of the site. Everything a fan might need was right there. This, my friends, was the beginning of the future of legitimate digital distribution of pop tunes.” (full story)