Mos def wants to give you a shirt you can hear.

[Gas One]

The article source - thegrind.bloghiphop.net


In an impressive move to go away from the norm, Mos Def is selling a t-shirt as his new album. Instead of getting a disk, fans will get a shirt with cover art on the front and a track list on the back. This shirt will not come with a CD. Instead, it will feature a code for each fan to use in order to download the album off the internet for free.

The concept may just work for Mos Def's sales, which are presently approaching 40,000 units of The Ecstatic. In a surprising move, Soundscan is said to actually count the t-shirt sales as album sales.

"It's taking an album and turning it into a t-shirt," designer Jeremy Wineberg, president of Invisible DJ told Digital Music News this week. "Each shirt comes with a digital download tag carrying a unique code and is manufactured by clothing company LnA."

How else does it help to have an artist make his album available through a site like lnaclothing.com?

"You're bypassing the middleman, like iTunes," Wineberg added.

According to Wineberg, fans will start seeing this shirt next month.

 

[D-Rose]

That's actually pretty dope.

 

[MEXCOM]

Too bad I wouldn't listen to Mos Def if he gave me the shirt for free.

(Goes back to bumpin' The Diary)

 

[L.D.S.]

That's an interesting way of sensitively doing away with compact discs.

 

[KillaClown]

THEY WANT 75 FUCKING DOLLARS FOR THIS BULLSHIT ASS SHIRT!

lammmeee.


anyone gotta pic of the Mos Def shirt?

 

[Gas One]

thats a streched out white t. 75 dollars? you can get those for .50 cent.

i dont really like his album cover, but ill support the idea as long as the shirt isnt excessively priced.

i heard the albums good too, i wouldnt know tho.

 

[ESFCE]

fuck that if i buy an album its in disc form. thats the convenience of it. i dont pay for mp3's unless its something not available on disc.

 

[2-0-Sixx]

man I thought the shirt was going to play his music, disappointed!

 

[ALL BOUT CHICKEN]

shout out to mos def, i'm not a big fan of his music anymore...at least not as much as i did in junior high and high school...

i remember when i seen him in london...

 

[DVS ONE]

its mos def a different way of marketing.......

 

[D-Rose]

I saw Mos Def on Haight St. in 2002.

From what I hear, he's always in SF, doing shows, causing a rawkus. I bet he has a house or something here.

 

[MOREBASS]

Hold ya head when the beat drops...wayooooooooooooooooooooooooo


$75 bucks though ? I'm coo.

 

[Meta4iCAL]

the album is good... kinda weird... but good

 

[Dead Blue]

would have been better with a CD on the inside.

 

[livemanikins]

dope idea, i am probably going to cop even though i already has the album. I fucking dig the album though.

 

[Gas One]

Hold ya head when the beat drops...wayooooooooooooooooooooooooo


$75 bucks though ? I'm coo.

its really 75 bucks?

 

[DuceTheTruth]

That's a good ass idea, they just gotta work that price down tho.....

 

[Gas One]

bring it down to 25-30 id fuck with it

guess ill just download his album for 0.00 and say fuck the shirt

 

[DuceTheTruth]

bring it down to 25-30 id fuck with it

guess ill just download his album for 0.00 and say fuck the shirt

Yea, 25-30 sounds better...since you get the shirt too.......

I wonder if this is gonna be the new trend?....

 

[Gas One]

i wouldnt doubt it, i could see his shit getting jacked

the shirt would have to be on a miskeen-painted type level for me to cop for 75.

theres a coogi shirt i want and that shits 90 bucks

id go for that first

even tho coogi is played now i like the colors