Sasha Frere-Jones of The New Yorker lashes out against labels that force music critics to sit for “listening sessions” of new albums. He says that the reasoning behind the practice is flawed, music critics receiving advances aren’t the ones responsible piracy of the album before their release.

I particularly enjoyed the fact that he says “almost all hip-hop releases … don’t go through this advance process“. Is that implying that the hip-hop audience predominantly pirate their music (so they can save up for their nikes — oops wrong post)? while hipsters spend their hard earned cash on indie records and are less prone to downloading them?

Posted by Kevin in Blogs Tags: music, popculture