Barkleys bank on release

Gnarls Barkley cheque out illegal downloads

Little and large dance duo Gnarls Barkley have launched their album a week early on iTunes.

Aptly called The Odd Couple, it was available for download in the US on Tuesday.

It was supposed to be released on April 8. Originally slated for a March 25 digital release, the CD is due to hit US shop shelves on March 25, a day after the digital version becomes available in the UK.

The boys reckon on their website that: ‘The timing was right just to go for it’. Although a less kind summation would be the time was right to cash in as quickly as possible after several tracks illegally became available on the web.

They ridiculously claim: ‘With the shifting seasons, furtive romantic entanglements and fierce college basketball rivalries, the latter half of March can be confusing. People need to be soothed and inspired now.’

Yes, we’re sure.

Rather worryingly from a PR point of view, their record company reckon there are also planning, ‘something globally with MySpace that has never been done before’.

Perhaps it’s giving it away free after all?

Showing the power of illegal downloads, White Stripes frontman Jack White has decided to release

The Raconteurs album a mere 25 days after recording it.

‘The purpose’, he claims is to, ‘get the album to the fans as soon as possible and as we promised.’

Once again, nothing to do with the fear of someone sticking it up on those sites we know we shouldn’t download from.

These bands seems to have the Bit Torrent between the teeth.

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