Music critic to labels: Give me CDs/MP3s/vinyl or don't bother

Cory Doctorow 10:14 pm Tue May 24, 2005

Matt sez, "New Yorker music critic Sasha Frere-Jones is pushing back on labels that mess around with critics in an attempt to curtail filesharing,"

I will not write about any piece of music unless I have unlimited access to a portable version of it, renderered in either the CD, MP3 or vinyl format.

"He's responding to the practice of holding "listening sessions" where a group of critics are invited to the label's offices to hear an album once or twice – rather than the standard practice of offering an advance CD weeks or months ahead of commercial release and giving the writer time to absorb and reflect."

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(Thanks, Matt!)

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