“I don’t believe every download is a lost sale.” - Jeff Tweedy
Nov 16th, 2004 | By Joe Taylor Jr. | Category: News
Wilco’s frontman talks to Wired News about how leaking Yankee Hotel Foxtrot on P2P networks (after their label refused to release it) saved their career. Oh yeah, their new album? At number 8 on Billboard.
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November 16th, 2004 at 11:33 am
~smartest thing Wilco ever did, releasing Yankee Hotel Foxtrot via the Web…~