Free "weed" from Land of Chocolate

We are excited to be able to make three tracks from our most recent
studio album, Regaining the Feel, available in a relatively new format
called "weed." Weed files will play on any Windows machine (not Mac)
and allow the user to play the song three times before s/he is required to
buy the song. In order to encourage listeners to circulate these files
digitally, Weed offers a rebate on files others buy that you have purchased
and shared with them. So if you listen to a song and decide to buy it, the
file is imprinted with your weed account ID and you pay 99 cents. When
the next person buys that particular file, you get 20%, the next pays you
10%, and the third pays you 5%. Ultimately, the song may only cost 65
cents after rebates on subsequent sales.

The "weed" concept is to encourage and enable a band's songs to spread
out on the internet--thus the name of the company. Rather than fight
downloading, the idea is to take advantage of it. If all works correctly, the
artist not only gets more exposure, but also gets paid with each sale at a
rate just a bit less than other digital download services. For more info,
check out this link:

http://www.weedshare.com/share/musicfans/

Here's what we have available right now:

Military Mindset
http://www.landofchocolate.com/music/-weed-Land%20of%
20Chocolate-Military%20Mindset.wma

Mechanical Pencil
http://www.landofchocolate.com/music/-weed-Land%20of%
20Chocolate-Mechanical%20Pencil.wma

Ungrateful
http://www.landofchocolate.com/music/-weed-Land%20of%
20Chocolate-Ungrateful.wma

These files seem to download best using Internet Explorer.

John Covach
www.landofchocolate.com



Edited by John Covach

Yep, that's a down side of these Weed files: PC only. We do have three files
in the Live Bootlegs section of our site that are regular mp3s and free to
download.

Go to www.landofchocolate.com/livebootlegs.htm and you'll see them there.

The Weed folks promise future compatibility with Mac, so we'll see. BTW, I'm
writing this on my G4 Powerbook, so I can sympathize!! jc

John Covach wrote: Yep, that's a down side of these Weed files: PC only. We do have three files in the Live Bootlegs section of our site that are regular mp3s and free to download. Go to www.landofchocolate.com/livebootlegs.htm and you'll see them there. The Weed folks promise future compatibility with Mac, so we'll see. BTW, I'm writing this on my G4 Powerbook, so I can sympathize!! jc

 

Hey cool, I got a g4 Powerbook too, do you happen to do any recording on it?

John Covach wrote: Yep, we're recording the new LOC album on a couple of PowerBooks right now. I love this laptop!! jc

 

cool, what program(s) do you guys use?

DarHobo wrote: [QUOTE=John Covach]Yep, we're recording the new LOC album on a couple of PowerBooks right now. I love this laptop!! jc[/ QUOTE]   cool, what program(s) do you guys use?

We're using ProTools, though I've heard Digital Performer is a bit more
flexible. Still, I'm pretty happy with ProTools and haven't bumped up agains
many of its limitations yet..

The free MP3 is pretty impressive!

We've been thrilled with the response to these new Weed files. Now that
some time has passed since we've made these available though, I'd love to
hear back from anyone who has downloaded the Weed files. What do you
think of the format/approach?