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Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Death Cab hoax

IS HIS FACE RED: Joe Berkowitz at the Awl has posted a very funny and self-deprecating essay on the 16 months he spent touting Death Cab for Cutie's Narrow Stairs to friends after pirating it online, not realizing it was a cleverly mislabeled collection of songs from the quite similar German band Velveteen, Pop & Hiss reported. The blogger’s point is that digital culture may have cheapened music to the point where it doesn't even matter if you have the actual songs at all. The Velveteen album served the same purpose and produced the same effect for me as the Death Cab for Cutie album it replaced for 16 months," Berkowitz writes. "In doing so, it proved that as long as our expectations are met, we’ll believe anything, even if we don’t buy it." (5/18a)

 
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