Download This Song: MC LARS

We love our TiVo, and so we tend to check out the ads when they pitch something on the DVR. It's kind of like clicking on GoogleAds of the blogs you read. If you can help them out, you might as well.

So we get this music video from MC Lars, who won't be seen on MTV, but can be seen on TiVo. This guy is awesome. The tune is catchy, and the chorus has that tinny radio box sound you heard in Video Killed the Radio Star. So the music is good - but more important, here's a guy taking the independent route to music success.

His message is simple - if the record labels can't get their hooks into, then they can't sue your fans for downloading your music. It's part of a new generation of musicians who are going the independent route with YouTube, MySpace, and social media to get out their music, without giving billions to bloated companies.

The chorus:
Hey Mr. Record Man, what's wrong with you?
You're running your label, like it was 1992.
Hey Mr. Record Man, your system can't compete.
It's the new Lars model, File Trasnfer..Complete!

Here's the video.



So here's my question, or comment, as it were. Record and Movie companies use commercials and advertisements to show that downloading music hurts the artists and the employees that bring us movies and songs. Their argument is that if we downlo,.., I mean steal music, that artists will stop creating. But these labels hurt artists. They rake huge profits out of the marketing of this product to the masses. They suck money from the artists, and give them a small fraction of the money back. Where are the commericals how these big companies hurt the creativity of the artist?

And if more independent artists can create likable work - wouldn't that be better, I mean, artistically, for everyone? If the point is protecting musicians for the sake of their art, shouldn't we talking about how to protect musicians from the labels?