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War-N Harrison, from the band Hungry Lucy, speaks about his views and support of Creative Commons licensing.

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It is always kind of a milestone event when we run out of a pressing of one of our CDs. It allows to pause for a moment and marvel at the fact that all of you fabulous fans have enabled us to sell multiple thousands of copies of a CD (that still blows my mind). Typically that is quickly followed by a large outlying of cash, shortly followed by a shipment of a thousand CDs that look and sound identical to their predecessor. There is always the urge, though, to make a few tweaks to the new batch. Usually, we fall back on staying true to the original. When it came time to re-press our 2003 CD, “Glo“, we gave in to that urge. So much has changed with the world and our beliefs since the last pressing that a change was in order. The new version of Glo not only reflects our musical and artistic vision, but also our belief that large heaps of plastic and coated paper are not such a great thing. Also gone are the “duplication punishable by death” statements. There is also the reality that we must be a little more cost-conscious when stocking up on a dying medium, the shiny disc.

The original version of Glo, was a double CD. The first disc being our original vision for the album, and the second being a set of re-imagined versions by some great artists such as Bloodwire, Chandeen, Claire Voyant, and The Dreamside among several others. All this was packed into a double plastic jewel case with an 8 page, glossy-coated booklet, which was then wrapped in yet more plastic.

The new version includes only the first disc enclosed in a 4 panel, recycled board wallet, printed with vegetable-based ink and no shrink wrap. We’re pleased to say the only plastic is the disc itself. Fear not, the wonderful remixes and 8 page booklet are not lost. Anyone purchasing the Glo CD will receive a special website address where they can download all of the remixes and the original 8-page booklet. The audio files are available in 256kbps MP3, 256kbps OGG and FLAC formats. The booklet is available in PDF format. For those concerned about the audio quality of MP3s, FLAC is a lossless format, meaning a full-fidelity copy of the original CD files. Equally as important to us (and hopefully you) is the fact that Glo is now released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike license.

All that simply means is that everyone is free to share, copy, distribute, remix, display and perform the music as long you let people know that Hungry Lucy created the music and include a link back to www.hungrylucy.com. This license only extends to non-commercial uses of the music. If you’re making money from it, just ask us first.

We first used Creative Commons licensing with our 2006 EP, “Before We Stand… We Crawl” and then with this year’s “Teatime Sessions” release. As we release new material, as well as re-press each of our previous releases, we’ll make sure each of those use the same Creative Commons license.

The brand-spanking new version of Glo is available now in the Hungry Lucy web store for just $11.00 USD.

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