Bloc Party downloads for free? We7 reckon so...

how long does the advert stay, if its after so many plays i will just mute the pc when im at work n shove it on loop :O

So says the website.

I've signed up to give it a go, we'll see what happens

point of a song as 'what it is'. It's utter wankflannel.

Free music? Great. Music that features an advert wedged at the start? This can do one.

In the same way I hate watching films on telly because of the adverts in the middle, this will piss me off royally. Although I can't wait to download it, then rip it to CD and play it when I DJ.

'Hi! Are you a mid-20s male from the London area? Then you too might like to try PIZZA! Just call 0800 MELTYCHEESEPAINFACE now, and find out what offers we have for you! And now, back to the latest tune from Stereophonics!' *cue song and indie disco RIOT*

Weren't they the same label who dropped all those bands a few years ago. They dropped The crocketts which annoyed me because they barely helped to promote them either....Great band.

wouldn't it be best to give it a try before slatting the shit out of it?

and I'm already put off by things such as:

"You'll even get the chance to review the best new music and the latest new bands for free as a We7 TasteMaker."

"We7 TasteMakers decide whether or not a band's music is good enough to be downloaded on our site - so you'll have a hand in judging what's going to be big and what's not in our free music download arena"

collecting demographic data to target market at people who want free stuff seems pretty bizarre anyway

let alone having a proxy street-team/focus group for further data gathering and marketing shenanigans

it would also seem to suggest that anything particularly underground doesn't have much of a chance getting onto the site as who will want to market to a 12 year old in the Isle of Skye who only downloads music from TV ads

actually - there's a thing - aren't companies who use a track for a TV ad going to protest at another company advertising on the download of that track?

there are so many holes in this business model that even a ten pound trout would slip through unhindered

maybe all the adverts will be great and we'll start hailing jingle writers as the new musical messiahs as every band ever is dropped from every label ever based on the views of the We7 TasteMakers

Music is art and culture ffs!

Imagine going to the National Gallery and only being allowed to look at the Wilton Diptych after you've tried "One of these great new tasty bacon and cheese snacks!"

clearly this makes me angry

on types of goods you don't know a great deal about, more so if you're in a hurry.

and to promote things with novelty value like new chocolate bars.

the more categories the advertisers can get to fit into these categories, the better they'll do.

if you'd rather just PAY FOR MUSIC than have to listen to fucking adverts in the middle of your favourite songs.

*raises hand*

it's alright for shitbiscuit artists like those listed in the article but what if you're listening to, oh i don't know, 'In the Aeroplane over the sea' are they going to wedge some jingle inbetween 'two headed boy' and 'the fool' - thereby utterly ruining one of the finest track transitions in cd history?

fuck right off. I'm not so tight that i want to ruin my experience of music for the sake of a few bloc party mp3s.

*cough*

am i moron because I don't have wav editing? Or just someone who's got better things to do with their time?

I just meant anyone who willingly listens to these adverts are morons

you don't HAVE to get your music this way, so it's not really worth getting angry about...

marketing tool

by collecting information and using your muisical preferences the company can easily segregate its consumer base thuis making their advertising space much more relevant to consumers, and making it more effective to its custoimers. this will mean they can charge a higher premium, give real figures as to how many people their clients adverts will reach and everything will be quantifiable, which is nice if you are a marketer or media buyer.

I wish i had thought of this, its a marketers dream.

Dont tell me, i already know, i am going to hell

on torrent sites, why use this?

i won't be although as i already state, its fucking geniuous money making scheme as a marketer i applaud it

someone will come up with a simple, free piece of software to edit the songs, you can currently do it easy enough anyway, when things are free i dont mind taking 2 mins out to edit a few tracks on magix to cut out the adverts.

bucket.

it's the most obvious thing. and it's been done before. by Sigue Sigue Sputnik of all bands who put adverts on one of their cds in the eighties. Clearly they were ahead of their time. one man's revolutionary is another man's lunatic.

It's all well and good unless you're someone who thinks music is the one art form that truly taps into the part of us that goes beyond the boring bullshit and commerce of everyday life. If you just consider music another thing to buy then this isn't going to matter much to you I suppose.

This is major labels clutching at straws because they understand in very clear and real terms how much money they lose from people downloading their releases illegally and are trying any means necassary to make money out of the whole download boom. It's pathetic.