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What if We Give It Away?

While looking for the previous link to the lyrics for Welcome To The Occupation, I found out that Murmurs.com started a peer-to-peer network called "give it away" for trading live and unreleased R.E.M. tracks. Evidently they've run this by the band, since the band also gave them permission to include B-Sides from the various singles as well as fan-club-only releases.

This is SO cool! I've already gotten an incredible version of Cuyahoga from the 2001 MTV Unplugged 2 concert. How beautiful.

By the way, the service name comes from this song.

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My name is Steve Ivy and I write about technology, the open web, social software, and general nerdity on monkinetic.com. You should follow me on Twitter or subscribe to this blog if you like what you're reading. I spend my days hacking Movable Type, python, Django, and various other efforts at Wallrazer. This is my personal site.