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Media: Harvey Danger posts full album online as Bittorrent

Posted by brian on Wednesday, September 21, 2005 at 5:08 PM (EDT)

Harvey Danger, whose new album Little by Little... recently hit stores via the band's own Phonographic Records label, has posted a link to download the album in full as a Bittorrent file.

You can click the following links to download the torrent: MP3 format / OGG format.

A direct link to download MP3s of the album will be posted on the download section of the band's website this coming Tuesday, September 27th.

Bittorrent is the highly controversial peer to peer file distribution system used by downloading fragments of the file in a random order, to which the fragments are reassembled upon completion of the download. You can click here for more information.

The popular file sharing protocol is used for everything from the legal distribution of freely available products like Linux to music and movie copyright infringement and has been said to account for a third of online traffic. Seemingly paradoxically, BitTorrent's architecture means that the more popular the file is the faster it is downloaded.

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Someone (September 21, 2005)

Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!

Someone (September 21, 2005)

Fuck this stupid fat fuck. Fuck him up his fat fucking ass.

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Someone (September 21, 2005)

huh?

Someone (September 22, 2005)

WTF, you work for the RIAA or something?

Someone (October 10, 2005)

For the good of mankind, kill yourself.

Someone (September 21, 2005)

More bands should take note...if you truly enjoy an album you will buy it...

Someone (September 21, 2005)

the album is decent, but nowhere near as good as their other full lengths. Definitely enjoy "Wine Women and Song" and "Moral Centralia" though.

Someone (September 21, 2005)

i love this band. jack the lion was a sick song. furry muffler too. and flagpole sitta the coolest song ever back in the day. PARANOIA PARANOIA EVERYBODYS COMING TO GET ME

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Someone (September 22, 2005)

That's Wooly Muffler, not Furry. But you're right, that album was ace.

Someone (September 21, 2005)

id better go wipe the shit off my cock

Anchors (September 21, 2005)

Slow news day?

Someone (September 21, 2005)

paranoia paranoia...

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Someone (September 21, 2005)

everyone's coming to get me!

skaboom (September 21, 2005)

I thought they were on indefinite hiatus

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Someone (September 21, 2005)

nope, sean nelson left the long winters and theyre back to being more full time. Their single will be released via Kill Rock Stars with an EP coming on KRS next year.

wehavecomeforyourchildren (September 21, 2005)

the new releases page has "I am the Avalanche - I am the Avalanche" and "I am the Avalanche - s/t". i'm gonna buy two copies.

CorpseOfMyMotivation (September 21, 2005)

Where Have All the Merrymakers Gone, despite the poppy single, was a fucking great album. I was just listening to it the other night. I didn't think these guys were still around.

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colin (September 21, 2005)

one of the most under-rated albums ever. so fucking good.

Someone (September 21, 2005)

I think of it as an angry equivalent of Weezer's Blue album

Someone (September 21, 2005)

Flagpole Sitta was damn catchy. Great radio song.

Dante3000 (rich) (September 21, 2005)

Very cool of them. Not to mention quite ballsy. I respect them for putting their album out there, knowing that if people like it they'll either buy it or go to their shows. Still it does seem a little bit like a publicity stunt, but it's one I can get behind. I swear to do my best to see this band the next time they're in town, merely because I feel this is the most awesome thing they could do. -Dante P.S. Seriously though, Slow news day? Or was the Bedlouin Soundclash news I submitted too out of date?

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Someone (September 21, 2005)

Of course it's a publicity stunt. Who wouldn't want publicity for an album??

Someone (September 22, 2005)

They give you an album for free and you say "smells of publicity stunt"? I think a better way to get publicity is to, you know, advertise and go on a tour and shit

Dante3000 (rich) (September 22, 2005)

Actually I said "seems a little bit like a publicity stunt". And if you think otherwise you must have a pretty functional life...You know for living with "the downs". Yeah it's cool of them, but it probably gets them more free press than they've had in years. Just look at this site, I've never heard Harvery Danger mentioned in a story before this one. -Dante

mikeinflames (September 21, 2005)

i'll take "Lame publicity stunts washed up bands attempt" for $500 alex

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Someone (September 21, 2005)

i was thinking the same think minus the jeopardy shit

Someone (September 21, 2005)

now that was funny!! hahaha

notfeelingcreative (September 21, 2005)

I'll take anal bum cover for 1000.

Someone (October 10, 2005)

So, let me get this straight: an indie band giving their music away for free to reach a bigger audience is lame? What's "cool"? Signing to Sony and doing a Coke commercial?

Someone (September 21, 2005)

This band is so overdone in Seattle. Just like Death Cab. But at least Harvey Danger puts me to sleep in 5 minutes as opposed to 1.3 seconds. Sleeping longer rocks.

maverick (scott) (September 21, 2005)

This band's two major-label full-lengths are two of the most favorite records I own. This new one is a bit of a departure, with the band going a more piano-driven route, but "Wine, Women And Song" and "Cream And Bastards" are still total gems. Please tour, Harvey Danger! You're one of the few bands on my "to see before I die" list! -Scott

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Someone (September 21, 2005)

i can now see why people think you are an idiot....

Someone (September 21, 2005)

Just shut up. Please. For all of us.

Someone (September 21, 2005)

scott has some good taste in music

Someone (September 21, 2005)

They were at the first concert I ever saw

Someone (September 22, 2005)

Your Harvey Danger is my They Might Be Giants.

Someone (September 22, 2005)

how embarrassing for you

Someone (September 22, 2005)

i agree, scott. you will see them soon, they'll be touring. As soon as Sean left the Long Winters, they became a full time band again. And they do not disappoint live, as Ive seen them a bunch of times recently. Travis.

Someone (September 21, 2005)

this is just plain embarassing!! This guy SUXXXXXXXX

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CorpseOfMyMotivation (September 21, 2005)

It's a band, dipshit. And it's also really fucking awesome thing to do.

Someone (September 22, 2005)

you used the word dipshit hehehehehhe. tool.

Someone (September 21, 2005)

how is this band still together?

swingline (September 21, 2005)

is it wrong to listen to switchfoot?

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Someone (September 21, 2005)

Absolutely.

CorpseOfMyMotivation (September 21, 2005)

Yes. Without a doubt, yes.

Someone (September 22, 2005)

coming from a Harvey Danger fan.....

Someone (September 21, 2005)

this band is amazing. thank god for harvey danger. don't listen to that shitty single...listen to the rest of that album...music hadn't sounded so good since the pixies... whew.

KirbyPuckett (September 22, 2005)

OMFG OGG WON'T PLAY ON MY IPOD!!! - Kirby

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Someone (September 22, 2005)

then download the MP3, stupid

AlmostPunkEnough (September 22, 2005)

wow, that's pretty awesome. i don't really like them, but this is mighty cool. ok, maybe i liked flagpole sitta in high school.

MrStabone (September 22, 2005)

i had no idea so many people liked this band.

Someone (September 22, 2005)

Now we just need to have a record by The New Radicals.

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Someone (September 22, 2005)

Except they (Or he? Was that actually a band or just one guy and his ego?) sucked, while Harvey Danger were genuinely decent.

Someone (September 22, 2005)

exactly. HDs albums are very good - while they fell victim to the one hit, they surrounded that song with amazing songs on the album.

Someone (September 22, 2005)

nope, they both equally sucked

bogey4 (September 22, 2005)

Hey, I'm doing research for work on the underlying structure of bit torrent, from a Graph Theory perspective. Does any body have any good places to start with the research? did it just get nerdier in here?

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Someone (September 22, 2005)

no, not at all here are a few sites. www.youarereallygay.com www.teenageboyfetish.com www. douchebagpie.com www.absolutepunk.net

Someone (September 22, 2005)

that shit was brilliant.... hahaha

Someone (September 22, 2005)

Fuck harvey danger! he fucking sucks!

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Someone (March 13, 2006)

damn straight! harvey danger?...new radicals? i thought this was punknews

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