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Sigur Rós team with Napster
18 May 2001

Icelandic post rock/noise/psychedelic quartet Sigur Rós, fresh off a sold out US tour, have announced they’ve teamed with troubled online music source Napster. The band’s song Svefn G Englar, from their second studio album Ágætis Byrjun (English: An OK Start) is now available for free and legal download on Napster’s Featured Music area. In a statement to the press, the band said “Napster has helped to change the way we access music. It’s brought a freedom based on sharing that exists outside the grasp of those concerned purely with financial gain.”
Napster, which facilitates Internet sharing of MP3 (MPEG I, layer 3) encoded music files, has lost a third of its users since late April when a US Federal court required them to attempt to block searches for copyrighted music.
(To access the Sigur Rós song using a Web browser, you must be using Microsoft Internet Explorer; to get the song you must have Napster (Windows or Mac OS version) installed.) | Sigur Rós | | Napster | | Bad Taste Records | | bio | | discography | | top of page |

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