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Artist: the hypertonics
Website: thehypertonics.com/
Track Name: All of them thehypertonics.com/mp3/
Playback: mp3/flash
Download?: Yes

Now this is Christmas every day of the year. the hypertonics are giving away all their music as DRMless MP3s.

Cool huh, So is it any good? I hear you ask and I answer “You know how CHristmas with the family is like Russian Roulette in the present dept ? Sme years you score well and some years you walk around going “WHAT WERE THEY THINKING”

Well it’s a bit like that, some of it is really good and some of it ( a very small percentage so far) is “WHAT WERE THEY THINKING”

But more interesting is the WHY….

The 20th century way of doing things is over and now is the chance to think and act in a new way.

We must pay for the sins of The Rolling Stones and $100 concert tickets and the RIAA and $18 CDs. The greed business has overwhelmed the music business and it’s time to push back at the tide. That requires sacrifice, and a shedding of the same greed that’s being destroyed.

It’s time to think about art in a different way. It’s time to rid music of the merchants and speculators who only want to make money, without genuine regard to art. Leave them out of the equation completely, so that all who are left are the artists and the weirdos.

The internet was created so that ideas and Ideals and information and feelings could be shared freely. Take the money out of it and return humanity in it’s place. The free exchange of ideas and energy must continue. Money or humanity, you can’t have both.

As The Hypertonics, we believe in our music enough to share it with people completely. Here are 54 songs – live and in the studio. Many of our friend’s bands are on record labels that seem to work as hard as possible against the fans and ultimately against the bands themselves. Their songs will never be heard. There is no trust there and no curiosity within the listener anymore. All human emotion has been vetted. All that matters amongst the office-dwellers is the opening weekend cash box numbers. No thanks.

Too many people have been too greedy for too long. The rest of us barely remember what it’s like to not be looking for a payday. Maybe together we can revive the ghost limbs of art for art’s sake. The artificial barrier that commerce creates has no place in music. The Artist and the Listener are allies, and the middle men who look for a payday are the enemy. This is the chance to ignore them and to exclude them, we have an opportunity to do something purely out of Principle.

If you want to destroy capitalism, you have to go first.

To contribute to the experiment, the option is available to you here. Otherwise, enjoy the music:

I like these guys attitude and I like a lot of what they do. Let me know.

thatch is fascinated by guitars, music, guitars, production, silly noises, guitars and used to be a musician. Did I mention the thing about the guitars?
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