Angels and Airwaves New Album 'LOVE' released for FREE

Kieran wrote:I love Angels, I love their last album I-Empire so much!

This is a nice listen actually, it's not as good as I-Empire but ahh well, who's to complain when it's free?

I wonder what the motive's were behind the free release?

Getting back to the album, how did you decide to release it for free?
We planned on a free record a long, long time ago. Years ago. It was always part of the plan. We always knew that our band would grow immeasurably by having a free album and by learning to monetize our band in a way. My company created a platform called Modlife, this prepackaged website that runs an artist’s website. If you go to angelsandairwaves.com, it’s sitting on a Modlife platform. It allows us to do pay-per-view there. It allows us to sell movies there. It allows us to sell music there. A whole host of things. We knew, if we had a free record, if a small percentage [of fans] came back and interacted on our website in a variety of ways, we would far outweigh the business model that we had with a major label. That’s how we’re trying to be a little groundbreaking. And at the same time, we learned a lot from Radiohead going out there and doing the model where [fans decide how much to] contribute. They did a huge thing that was very risky and very different, and we’re just trying to take that and step it up a bit. We think we’ve found a model that works to fix the music industry. I think we’re going to be a perfect case study for it.

ChumbaWumba91 wrote:

Kieran wrote:I love Angels, I love their last album I-Empire so much!

This is a nice listen actually, it's not as good as I-Empire but ahh well, who's to complain when it's free?

I wonder what the motive's were behind the free release?

Tom Delonge said in an interview why

The whole interview is really interesting actually: http://music-mix.ew.com/2010/02/10/angels-airwaves-love-blink-182/#more-11880