if you log onto the Danger Mouse website and try to buy this album with the companion book of photographs by David Lynch, a message informs you:"This limited edition art book contains 100+ pages of original photographs by celebrated film director David Lynch. Only 5000 copies have been printed and each one is hand numbered. The book will also come with a 24" X 36" poster as well as a custom designed CD-R (poster comes folded). Please note: Due to an ongoing dispute with EMI, Danger Mouse is unable to include music on the CD without fear of legal entanglement. Therefore, he has included a blank CD-R as an artifact to use however you see fit."
you can stream this album from the NPR website as one of their "exclusive first listen" selections. it appears that EMI is still miffed after Danger's Jay-Z/Beatles mash-up masterpiece "The Grey Album" sampled the classic rock icons.
the album is incredible. there is currently an exhibition of the photographs and music at the Michael Kohn Gallery in L.A. running for four more days. maybe after it closes, David Lynch will figure out some way to outsmart the record company and create a video that incorporates the music so we can all see this. i love when popular artists collaborate like this, and it's a crime that some tic-tac dick in a swivel chair who's probably never paid any significant attention to the project brought down the hammer so swiftly.
congrats to the artists for trying anyway, and for presumably working on leaking their own album so that we can eventually manually burn it to the blank CD-R.
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