donewaiting.com » Saul Williams http://www.donewaiting.com Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:52:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 New Saul Williams Video: DNA http://www.donewaiting.com/2008/09/19/new-saul-williams-video-dna/ http://www.donewaiting.com/2008/09/19/new-saul-williams-video-dna/#comments Fri, 19 Sep 2008 13:15:04 +0000 Robert Duffy http://www.donewaiting.com/?p=5296 Click here to view the embedded video.

I became a fan of Saul Williams at SXSW. Picked up his “new” album on vinyl a few weeks ago, too, which is really good.

]]> http://www.donewaiting.com/2008/09/19/new-saul-williams-video-dna/feed/ 0 Saul Williams + Trent Reznor + Free = The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust! http://www.donewaiting.com/2007/10/25/saul-williams-trent-reznor-free-the-inevitable-rise-and-liberation-of-niggytardust/ http://www.donewaiting.com/2007/10/25/saul-williams-trent-reznor-free-the-inevitable-rise-and-liberation-of-niggytardust/#comments Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:31:05 +0000 Tankboy http://donewaiting.com/2007/10/25/saul-williams-trent-reznor-free-the-inevitable-rise-and-liberation-of-niggytardust/ Continue reading →]]> Fader is releasing the Trent Reznor / Saul Williams collaboration The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust! free of charge in DRM-free 192 kbps MP3 format. If you want a choice of formats, or you just want to directly support the artist, you can shell out $5. The album will be available for download November 1, but you can pre-order now.

In some ways this is awfully similar to the Radiohead model, with a few improvements. First of all, the higher baseline kpbs encoding is nice, but I really like the fact that if you pay, you can get the download in whatever format you’d like on up to FLAC.

Secondly, I don’t think this is physically coming out, so it won’t be viewed as a leveraging ploy / future CD-sales tactic. In fact it’ll probably give Williams more recognition than he’s (ever?) had. This is not just due to the sales model, since obviously Reznor’s involvement is pretty noteworthy … especially given his own recent outspoken disdain for the Major Label model of distributing music.

I’m liking these changing times.

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