Score one for David Levine’s argument that complimentary goods would allow producers of expressive works to profit without copyright, part of his broader response to the infamous “King Kong question.”
Yesterday, I got Tool’s new CD 10,000 Days.
Instead of a jewel case, it comes in a sort of book with stereoscopic lenses built into it. As you ROCK to the first new album from them in years, you look through the lenses at these interesting and bizarre pictures that so typify the Tool aesthetic.
Meaning: You downloading wussies, sitting in your dorm rooms listening to the Tool song that you downloaded, you have no idea what the total Tool experience is like. You can’t download the Tool experience. Smoke all you want of the skank-weed you bought from that hustler and listen to your downloaded Tool. You don’t rock out to Tool the way I rock out to Tool. If you want to do that, you have to buy the CD. Downloader.
Ahem. Sorry. A little over-excited about the new Tool CD.
But you get the point. Consciously or not, Tool has linked its digital good to a tangible one and helped to lock in sales.
The album is good. I mean, . . . it’s Tool!
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