Guest post by Michael Brandvold of Michael Brandvold Marketing.
I came across this on Bravewords.com this morning: Starting at roughly 8:00am EST on Thursday, February 2nd, VAN HALEN's new album A Different Kind Of Truth will reportedly be available via the Australian iTunes store (12:00 midnight on February 3rd Sydney time). Go to www.apple.com/au/itunes for more information.
A Different Kind Of Truth, will be released in North America by Interscope Records on February 7th. Audio samples from the entire album can be found at this location (click view in iTunes).
As I suspected you can already find the album on the torrents for free. Many U.S. and rest of world fans who would buy it today from iTunes CAN'T BUY IT. Why? Because we live in the wrong country. I have my iTunes preorder, but I can't listen until next Tuesday, but fans in Australia can listen today. Explain why this makes any sense? Don't complain about your music being pirated when you decided only certain regions of the world are allowed to buy it. Is there a really solid reason why the album could not have been released worldwide at the same time? Does the U.S. label really need until February 7th to get ready? Is the label in Australia that much more prepared that they didn't need a few extra days? Or is it just because that is the way it has always been done?
Remember, there is only one territory for releasing music now...the world. You can't restrict music to borders, there are no borders.
Whose fault is it that many U.S. Van Halen fans are now downloading the new album?
