mp-FREE: YACHT hands over entire instrumental library; fights for freedom

(photo by Sarah Meadows)

Word?  Now we all can make our very own versions of the "Parentheses" karaoke video?  Sweet.  Or maybe you'd prefer to soundtrack this year's coolest Halloween-costume-to-be: a giant penny.

Could Jona Bechtolt been any fucking more supreme?  We may be late to this one because of our trip to the islands, etc., but we seriously can't get over how monumental this is to any fan of music.  We mean, dude's offering up pretty much every track in the common era of YACHT for free.  They're the instrumentals only, so don't think there'll be raps on top of it.  That's for you to do.  Break out your best Khaela impressions now.  According to Jona's blog post:

I download music. I download a lot of music. I don't purchase music often, so I completely and totally understand when kids come up to me at shows and look me straight in the eye and tell me they're not going to buy my record tonight because they've already, or are going to go home and, download it. There just isn't any reason to show animosity towards this new-ish way of communicating; to me, this feels like a natural way of weeding out assholes and the people that aren't smart enough to make interesting work.

I want to give back. Here are three ZIP files of instrumentals. Download them, use them for karaoke, perform as YACHT or The Blow, chop them up and make your own remixes, make your own new songs, put them on indietorrents, upload them on alt.binaries.mp3.cooldudes, do what you will. These are 256 kbps DRM-free MP3s properly tagged with album art. Have at it!

(mp3)    The Blow - Parentheses (instrumental)

(mp3)    YACHT - See A Penny (Pick It Up) (instrumental)

Godspeed!