thom yorke drops burial and modeselektor remixes on boomkat
It’s tomorrow in London as I write this post and the good folks at Boomkat offer up a digital download of Yorke’s ‘And it Rained All Night’ and ‘Skip Divided’ with respective mixes by Burial and Modeselektor. So my 2007 Best Albums of the Year top 3 artists are all represented here….such prescience from the Moose, I knew slipping Thom that fiver would work. One slight puzzle though. You can buy the MP3s at 320kbs or you can buy the songs in FLAC - Free Lossless Audio Codec - for £1 more. Boomkat’s blurb goes as follows - You are a bit of a music connoisseur, you deem 320Kbps MP3s to be inferior, you want DRM free, lossless downloads and you want them now! All very well, but does this mean that the “inferior” MP3s have DRM? I’ll buy them and let you know.
Thom Yorke - Harrowdown Hill [MP3]
Related Post: 2007 Best Albums of the Year
Update: The MP3s are DRM-free 320kbs and sound fine, especially on headphones. Heads up - purchasing via Visa from the USA was janky, lots of hoops to jump through. And at £2.95 these cuts cost me $6.00 so if they turn up in the USA cheaper……grrrr.