They Might Be Giants is starting a download store at TheyMightBeGiants.com, selling tracks for $.99 and full-length albums for $10.
The store will not offer everything in the band’s catelogue, but will offer tracks from the band’s 2002 children’s album “No!” (Rounder), the 2002 rarities compilation “They Got Lost” (Idlewild), its latest full-length “The Spine” (Zoe) and the EP “The Spine Surfs Alone,” as well as live shows from the 2004 “Spine Hits the Highway” tour.
The Brooklyn, N.Y.-based band started negotiating for digital distribution rights in 1999, before the release of “No!” That album has sold 101,000 copies in the U.S., according to Nielsen SoundScan.
Downloads are available in the MP3 format, as the band has elected to forgo digital rights management.
Also, the band is releasing its first kids DVD – “Here Come the ABCs” – through Disney Sound in tandem with its own Idlewild label this winter, as well as more picture book/CD sets through Simon and Schuster.
After the current tour for “The Spine” concludes, TMBG will record its second and third Simon and Schuster book/CD projects. Last year’s “Bed, Bed, Bed” was inspired by a track on “No!” and featured the art of Marcel Dzama.
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