"u2 Allow Fans To Listen To New Album Online..."

[Matt]

a chartattack.com news story.

 

U2 Allow Fans To Listen To New Album Online… Legally

Thursday November 11, 2004 @ 02:30 PM

By: ChartAttack.com Staff

 

U2 fans have always been eager to get their hands on whatever their beloved band is doing next. The earlier they can get it, the better. It doesn't matter, as long as they can get it first.

 

Last week, the very fans who pay U2's way through the world made the band's worst nightmare come true when U2's forthcoming album, How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb, showed up online less than two weeks before it's set to hit the shelves. This is something that the band have feared since July, when a copy of rough-cuts from the album went missing in France.

 

Hoping to make the best of their predicament, U2 are hooking up with MTV.com and VH1.com to stream the new album online, as of Tuesday, November 16, one full week before the November 23 release date. The scheme makes it possible to listen to the finished album, while preventing it from being downloaded.

 

—Shawn Loughlin

[Akarik]

That's a very ingenious way of covering up that faux pas. Plus, more people might be likely to buy it. Tragic, but could be very helpful for them.

[THE MAN]

Green Day did the same thing with "American Idiot" a while ago.

[marik]

it costs nothing to listen to the streams?

[S.E. Hardy]

I was under the impression that you could listen to the streams if you pre-purchased the album.

[juanpe]

wow, that's good to know... you can always listen to it before purchaising it ;)

[marik]

i'm not worried about listen to it before buying. i think u2 material is pretty safe bet!

[miles2025]

I'm still going to make myself suffer and wait until next week

[montrealmike]

I'm still going to make myself suffer and wait until next week

Smart choice

[S.M.B.2004]

has anyone heard it?

[Guest acrobate]

Same thing happened for All That You Can't Leave Behind in 2000. All the songs were on Napster a few months before the release date. Oh, how I miss Napster.

[juanpe]

I've already heard it... they have a couple of songs which are really really good ("sometimes you can't make it on your own" and "yahweh")... and they have a version of "neon lights" by Kraftwerk (the song in the album is called "city of blinding lights"), one of my favorite bands ;)

Edited November 22, 2004 by juanpe

[Matt]

I've already heard it... they have a couple of songs which are really really good ("sometimes you can't make it on your own" and "yahweh")... and they have a version of "neon lights" by Kraftwerk (the song in the album is called "city of blinding lights"), one of my favorite bands ;)

I think a version of "Neon Lights" is on one of the copies of the "Vertigo" singles as well...

[marik]

yes, it is. city of blinding lights is a different song. i'm getting the new cd tonight at midnight! so excited.