Celebrating free culture and music: the What CD
One of the things we always wanted to do on this blog, but have to little time to realize, is to celebrate the expressions of the new culture of open and collaborative movies and music. For movies and documentaries, see our selections in our Webcast directory.
And for music, you can start with The What CD.
Please do send us similar compilations!!
Here is some context, from TorrentFreak:
“On What.cd, one of the larger music communities with over 60,000 members, artists have found a particularly successful outlet. In fact, the free albums are particularly popular, and often among the most downloaded. The music minded members, of which quite a few are artists themselves, are very appreciative of every new album. This August a compilation CD was released with tracks from 19 artists who uploaded their music to the site. This CD, titled “The What CD” is the most active torrent of all time on the tracker.”
They conclude in this article:
“At TorrentFreak we have now reached a point where we can no longer mention all the artists that give away their music for free. While it was a rather exceptional thing to do three years ago, it has become mainstream today.”