Earlier this week, we reported that a Seattle radio station had leaked soundbites from the Tron soundtrack.
Then a bombshell landed on YouTube, when nine songs from the forthcoming soundtrack appeared in their entirety, making Daft Punk the newest arrivals at the “my album leaked on YouTube” party.
We’ve listened with open ears, and it’s pretty safe to call these the real deal.
The last “new” Daft Punk album came out in 2006, “Human After All,” and it’s been too long a wait. But our appetite will be sated come the release of “Tron Legacy” in December, because there are at least 24 tracks recorded for the film.
Listen to these while you can—sure YouTube will pull the plug on this very soon. Which is funny, in a meta sense, how policing will act out through the tubes of the net, just not on light cycles.
The website is so massive and diverse that it’s become something of a metropolis, sort of like Tron itself. There are countless kinds of videos, celebrities, and even businesses run through its servers. In the case of the “leaked album” epidemic, we see of how this metropolis’s red light district thrives.
In 2008 an upload by Antiquiet.com famously spoiled Guns n’ Roses’ comeback album Chinese Democracy. YouTube, home to countless leaks, also stores priceless bootlegs that would otherwise only be found in dusty VHS collections at out of the way record stores and only available to a small number of eyes.
With other pirate organizations, from Wikileaks to Pirate Bay, that have some people frothing with anger, it’s exciting to see how volatile and universally uncontrollable the internet has become. Even though it’s old tech by now, it’s looking more and more like the new frontier.
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