While the sharing of music tracks has been big news for a while, the sharing of bootlegs, radio-edits, personal-gig-recordings and other music never intended for sale seems to be booming too. Our iTunes and other music libraries are filling up with music that record companies aren’t trying to sell.
I recently found myself sending a link to a site called Hypeful with MP3s of 2008 best covers to friends. The list includes Vampire Weekend’s cover of Fleetwood Mac’s Everywhere and Grnarls Barkley’s cover of Radiohead’s Recknoner. What’s interesting about Hypeful’s list is that so many of the tracks are not [...]

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