Singer Elvis Costello's Web site argues that the artist's latest boxed set is too expensive, and that fans should steal it instead. Well, sort of.
"The Return of the Spectacular Spinning Songbook," the boxed set of Elvis Costello and the Impostors, is priced at $202.66 on Amazon. That's way too high for even a true fan, the ElvisCostello.com site wrote earlier this month.
"Unfortunately, we at www.elviscostello.com find ourselves unable to recommend this lovely item to you as the price appears to be either a misprint or a satire," the site's authors wrote, without specifying if they represented Costello's personal views.
"All our attempts to have this number revised have been fruitless but rather than detain you with tedious arguments about morality, panache and book-keeping - when there are really bigger fish to filet these days - we are taking the following unusual step."
That step was to recommend users buy the much more reasonably priced "Ambassador Of Jazz" boxed set by Louis Armstrong, priced at $149.99 on Amazon. "Frankly, the music is vastly superior," the elviscostello site wrote in its post.
"If on the other hand you should still want to hear and view the component parts of the above mentioned elaborate hoax, then those items will be available separately at a more affordable price in the New Year, assuming that you have not already obtained them by more unconventional means," the authors wrote in the post, titled "Steal This Record".
But in a followup, the site clarified its stance. "If you should still want the component items in the above mentioned elaborate hoax, they will be available separately at a more affordable price in the New Year, unless you are one of those pirates who imagines they are evangelists or that other people's rights absolve their own thievery, in which case this is between you and your dim conscience," the post noted.
For more from Mark, follow him on Twitter @MarkHachman.
No hay comentarios:
Publicar un comentario