Downloading is killing the music industry. At least, that's their claim.

But consider this:

"Since the release of Give Up early last year, Sub Pop records has offered the Postal Service's two lead singles available as free downloads on their website, and they've sold more than 300,000 copies of their album. Despite the fact that the songs have been downloaded for free 1.5 million times since then (or more likely because of this), Such Great Heights and The District Sleeps Alone have both been in the top 100, sometimes at the same time, on the iTunes Music Store for the past several months.

But I've worked with the music industry in the past... I'm pretty sure they still think we're all a bunch of thieves."

-anildash at September 23, 2004 01:14 AM

I first mentioned Postal Service in A Different Kind of Top 10 Music List For 2004;

The Postal Service downloads mentioned above can be found here. For those of you too lazy to click to a new page, the two songs are linked here:

The District Sleeps Alone Tonight [MP3 5.43m]

Such Great Heights [MP3 4.07m]

Also, be sure to check out the live performance in the KCRW studio (real video).

Oh, and all of these sources are legitimate authorized by the label/artists downloads . . .