U2’s A-Bomb ‘Net’ release
p2pnet.net News:- Rumours that Apple’s favourite band, U2, will advance the release date of How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb because it’s already online, have been discounted.
"Security around the album has been tight for months, despite a copy of the CD disappearing from a photoshoot in France earlier in the year," says Britain’s NME.
Then, last week ‘How To Dismantle’ showed up on the p2p nets, "allowing fans across the world the chance to hear it before release," says NME, going on that earlier in the year, Bono said a leak would make U2 consider bringing forward the release, "possibly via iTunes".
How To Dismantle is slated for November 22.
NME gives the track list as:
- Vertigo
- Miracle Drug
- Sometimes You Can’t Make It On Your Own
- Love And Peace Or Else
- City Of Blinding Lights
- All Because Of You
- A Man And A Woman
- Crumbs From Your Table
- One Step Closer
- Original Of The Species
- Yahweh
- Fast Cars’ (UK Bonus track)
As a p2pforums post puts it, "As much as the RIAA wants to blame this on hoards of geeks using their favorite file sharing program to exchange 1’s and 0’s, the real problem is the industry. If they could control there own people these albums would not be available until they appear in stores. It’s a shame, for them that many of their own seem to have sided with the geeks’."
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See:-
tight – U2′S ‘BOMB’ WILL NOT DROP EARLY!, NME, November 9, 2004
disappearing – U2 Vertigo theft, p2pnet. July 20, 2004
hoards of geeks – Industry Sucks at Keeping Big Albums off Net, p2pforums, November 8, 2004
November 10th, 2004 at 6:03 pm
Mnnn….
U2 are wayyyyy past their prime….
so as far as I am concerned they can delay the album release as much as they want…
ok Bono is a well doer and politically engaged which is great
but that still doesn’t change the fact that they stopped making good music about 10 years ago (or has been longer?)
PS. the U2 ipod looks horrible…
November 10th, 2004 at 6:41 pm
I dunno, it looks less like a bar of soap than the regular ipod.
November 10th, 2004 at 7:47 pm
ya sure but the red black combo kinda sucks…
all red or all black would have been cool
plus the band’s signatures are engraved on the back and that is way uncool
November 11th, 2004 at 9:56 pm
you obviously aren’t a u2 fan so why bother commenting on any of this? the red black combo is the color scheme of the new u2 album. apple is also offering for a very reasonable $100 (if you buy the ipod) the complete u2 digital box set of over 400 songs (every album, live and unreleased tracks). i would say that’s pretty ambitious and confronting music piracy in a constructive manner. u2 is the only relevant band from the 80’s, probably the only band making relevant music for however long they have been doing it besides r.e.m. it sounds like you’re just jealous or maybe you were hoping for a cher ipod?
November 12th, 2004 at 4:41 am
stopped making good music 10 years ago???…..maybe you should make your way out of that cave you’ve been living in this past decade. Either that or your taste in music just plain out sucks.