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Hey everyone, Coldplay are back! Finally, drearily self-important, emotionally hollow stadium rock for people who don't like music has a voice again! To mark their return, Coldplay recently decided to release their new single Violet Hill as a free download. And apparently Violet Hill has now been downloaded by two million people eager to hear Coldplay's Spanish-influenced, Brian Eno-helmed new direction. Sadly there aren't any figures for how many people only listened to Violet Hill once, rolled their eyes because it's exactly the same as every other Coldplay song ever written and instantly deleted it from their iTunes library. We're guessing it's just a shade off two million.
Nine Inch Nails have always been pioneers, first in making rubbish music for sad idiots and now in innovative distribution methods. Following an experiment with some self-indulgent noodly-doodly instrumental tracks earlier this year, Nine Inch Nails has decided to give its new album away to fans for free, without even an option to pay anything, until it comes out on CD when you suckers will have to cough up. This move by Nine Inch Nails obviously has its critics, who claim that giving away music for free devalues it to the point where it becomes worthless. But these critics are plainly fools - the music of Nine Inch Nails has always been kind of worthless to everyone except for panda-eyed 13-year-olds with BO and a low-level interest in self harm. This just levels the playing field out a bit.
We've just been handed details on how you can get your hands on two free music downloads, but you'll have to move fast. Fashion and beauty website OSOYOU, responsible for all the cleavage competitions we've been telling you about lately, is giving away two free music downloads from 7digital.com to the next 500 people who join the site. Needless ...
Last year the music industry cacked itself senseless as Radiohead decided to break the monotonous music industry procedures.
Others have since copied Radiohead and given their music away for free. And today another major band is set to do the
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We're not joking. Lock your doors, strap down your children and only go to sleep if you're wearing full body armour - Foxy Brown is out of jail. On Friday afternoon Foxy Brown was finally set free from Riker's Island jail, where she'd been serving time for probation violation stemming from a fight with some manicure workers. And, although the world has changed drastically in the eight months since she was first imprisoned, Foxy Brown has gone all out to prove that she's changed even more. In fact, Foxy Brown has publicly stated that she believes God put her in jail for a reason. Which is actually true - it's just that the reason happened to be that Foxy Brown is a mental lunatic who couldn't be more violent if you cross-bred her with a wasp.
These days it seems like you're not a real band unless you give your music away free for a fortnight and then triple the price of your concert tickets for the privilege.
Radiohead did it, The Charlatans are doing it, and now gloomy old Nine Inch Nails are sort of vaguely doing it a bit as well. Sort of. A bit.
Nine Inch Nails are releasing their 36-tack instrumental album Ghosts I-IV on the internet for free, with the option of spending more to upgrade to something a touch swankier. Truly, historians will look back on this day as the moment when Nine Inch Nails really shook up the long-established Miserable Ambient Wank That Nobody Would Have Paid For Anyway industry. That's right Trent! Stick it to the man!
His racist-seeming mouth may have got his TV show yanked off air, but at least Dog The Bounty Hunter is no longer a wanted man in Mexico, and how many of us can say that?
Well, all of us probably. Anyway, Dog The Bounty Hunter has lived with the threat of extradition to Mexico over his head for some time now, after an ill-advised bounty-hunting jaunt there in 2003, but now a Mexican court has dropped his charges.
Dog The Bounty Hunter's a free man again! Finally he'll be able to ditch that ridiculous disguise of his and live his life normally again.
That is a disguise, right?
When a celebrity goes to jail, they tend to only spend about a tenth of a single traumatic nanosecond banged up - but not Kiefer Sutherland.
Kiefer Sutherland was released from jail just a few hours ago, having served all 48 of his 48-day sentence for DUI. And, now he's out, Kiefer Sutherland gets to wear his 'full sentence served' badge like a war medal around his prematurely-released ex-con celebrity counterparts.
Obviously the only celebrity other than Kiefer Sutherland to serve their full sentence recently was Paris Hilton. We think this means that Kiefer will end up painted gold in a desert for a canned champagne advert soon or something.
