Coldplay offers free music
Following the footsteps of a lot of musicians (Nine Inch Nails), the UK based band has decided to offer a free download of their latest single “Violet Hill” for free download from their website for a week. (Got this from Facebook.)
We’re very pleased to announce that Coldplay’s new single, Violet Hill, will be available as a free download exclusively from Coldplay.com for one week starting tomorrow, Tuesday April 29th, at 12.15pm UK time. This is a full week ahead of the single’s conventional paid-for digital release, on Tuesday May 6th.
Way to go guys! Good music - that too for free, legally that is. Awesome! Also, they have announced a couple of free gigs in UK. Ojas, you might be interested.
Is this another nail in the coffin of the music industry? I don’t know. But this sure is a huge step in that direction.
Look at the stars
I have been listening to Coldplay ever since I have returned from office today. Here are the songs that are playing in a loop.
1. Trouble - “… I never meant to cause you trouble”
2. Scientist - “Nobody said it was easy, No one ever said it would be this hard”
3. Fix You - “When you get what you want but not what you need, When you feel so tired but you can’t sleep”
4. Clocks - “Confusion never stops, Closing walls and ticking clocks
Gonna, come back and take you home, I could not stop that you now know”5. Yellow - As Rahul says, “… making an ordinary colour seem so romantic“
And I love how they refused to sell their songs to promote Coke and stuff. And I love them for being so U2ish.