World of Weird Al Yankovic

While we have that link provided, somebody ought to add a thing on the Craigslist page about Al's song.

DOORS style parody!! A revolution!

SEVA.

TMBJon @ June 13, 2009 08:55 pm wrote: For anyone who has never seen the site: http://craigslist.org/
Be sure to click on your home city, then explore the various sections.

What an ugly website. The presentation is so poor that i wasn't tempted to really stick around. It feels cheap and shabby

Eh, I'm not worried about a 10-second preview clip posted in a password-protected spoiler forum. Especially when it was previously posted for download on a site like Amazon.

I think the mods did a good job at keeping SOL .mp3s off the forum prior to the release. I believe we caught and edited appropriately all the links posted. Did people trade links via PM? Probably, but the mods have little control over that, other than to ask people not to. Also we can't police what goes on outside the forum, so once the songs leaked, I think it was appropriate to allow discussion. It's up to Al, Al's record label, the RIAA, etc., to go after people who illegally trade .mp3s, not us.

And whether it comes from Al's record label, or Al himself, I never understood the emphasis on the pre-release secrecy. I can understand wanting to keep the specific lyrics secret, but if I was a musician and I had an album coming out that I hoped to sell, I'd be telling everyone who would listen about it. Is Al worried about someone stealing his idea? No legit musician on an established record label is going to do that for fear of getting sued. And the morning DJ, or the guy who records the home-parody and posts it on YouTube, is hardly any competition, and will probably execute the idea poorly, compared to Al, anyway.

Dave

ludovica64 @ June 13, 2009 07:32 pm wrote: What an ugly website. The presentation is so poor that i wasn't tempted to really stick around. It feels cheap and shabby

Ahahaha! That's the whole point and appeal of the website. Nothing fancy, just free classified ads

ludovica64 @ June 13, 2009 05:32 pm wrote: What an ugly website. The presentation is so poor that i wasn't tempted to really stick around. It feels cheap and shabby

Agreed. This was my first time going on the site. They couldn't even spell out "Massachusetts."

I'm sticking with eBay.

AAAmerah @ June 13, 2009 01:09 pm wrote: Wikipedia is a vast collection of KNOWLEDGE! I think. It has information, maybe? Sometimes I'll go to Wikipedia instead of the site first just because I want to read about it.

Yeah, that's pretty much why I linked to its Wiki article, instead of directly to it. I often check out a website's Wiki page if I hear about it somewhere, before checking out the site itself.

craigslist Wiki page wrote: In June 2009, "Weird Al" Yankovic released a song titled "craigslist", which is a style parody of The Doors.

I was wondering when someone would get around to putting something like that there.

was the preview for a limited time? because i didn't get one.

It wasn't for a limited time. It was just removed. Stephen saved the clip that was on there, and it should be a view posts up.