Coldplay Give Away Single; We'd Make A Joke About Nobody Wanting It Anyway If They Weren't Multi-Platinum Already

Posted by Clem Bastow at 10:24 AM on April 29, 2008

Looks like "we're giving our next album/single away for free" is code for "we haven't made a relevant album in a while and we're worried that we're becoming stale, do you still like us, DO YOU? Here, have it for free!" when it comes to the monsters of rock.

First Radiohead, then Prince, now Coldplay are releasing their next single online and for free. Well, gosh, thanks, guys!

A note posted on www.coldplay.com said that fans can download Violet Hill from the album Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends free for one week from tomorrow.

The album will be launched in Britain on June 12.

Coldplay also announced two free shows - one at London's Brixton Academy on June 16 and another at Madison Square Garden in New York on June 23.

Really, what all these sales-nervous bands should do is start getting in the crazy sale guy; that'll solve everything. For example:

PONDEROUS ADULT CONTEMPORARY BALLADS, OUT THEY GO!! THESE REFLECTIONS ON A VEGAN LIFESTYLE IN THE HARSH FACE OF STARDOM WILL NEVER BE REPEATED!!

See? They're already flying off the shelves.

Comments

acharis

Posted April 29, 2008 12:31 PM

Everyone seems to be forgetting the recent release of the new Nine Inch Nails track!
http://dl.nin.com/discipline/nin

& I'll admit I'm a coldplay fan (yeah, I just said that out loud after trying to plug NIN) but WTF is going on in that photo?

Jono

Posted April 29, 2008 3:50 PM

Coldplay - 10 years of watering down Radiohead's ideas.

Hirsty

Posted April 29, 2008 11:21 PM

Yeah Clem (if that's your real name), all these bands releasing things for free, it's like when I used to get a free wowwypop from my Parish Priest in return for my eternal soul.