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Millions of teens and twenty-somethings like Zotaley have joined the digital revolution, downloading music from the Net and skipping that trip to Tower Records, thereby saving the $16.99 they would have spent on a CD. On college campuses that offer students fast T-1 connections to the Internet, up to 75% of students are music pirates...
...morality. And they're a tribe of cannibals out there." A typical consumer is American University freshman Jaymin Patel. "I've had MP3s for about two years now," he says. "I first learned about them from a hacker friend who told me I'd never have to buy a CD again...
When singer-songwriter Jonatha Brooke was released from her contract with MCA last year, she didn't fret--she went online. Her engaging new CD, Jonatha Brooke Live, is available for mail-order purchase exclusively at Brooke's website www.jonathabrooke.com) which also features audio clips of her work. On Feb. 5, when the electronica group Underworld offered a free, full-length MP3 file of a track from its forthcoming CD, its Web page received 400,000 hits in one day--an impressive showing for an only modestly famous musical act. And last year the Artist Formerly Known as Prince...
...will be sorely disappointed. The few interesting moments, such as the charming first minute of "I'm Lost Without You," are almost completely obscured by the avalanche of boring ones. Also, after five or six songs, Colin James' annoying forties-crooner imitation becomes utterly intolerable. This CD may inspire some people to destroy it and others to fall asleep, but only the most swing-starved to dance...
...well-paved and oft-traveled. Despite the difficulty of making a living that way, Weinstein and Tardy have made that brave decision to go where few others would go, and that is in the wake of the flight of their dreams. Already, Tardy is making an 8-track promotional CD (loosely entitled Jessica Tardy Live--Please Book Me) with the aim of distributing copies all over Nashville, where she hopes her destiny as a star will be realized. Until that happens, she says, "I'm just going to go there and starve and wait tables. I'm not afraid...