Bob Dylan Art: Opening Up a Big Jar o’ Stature-Free CDs!
Bob Dylan’s insight into CDs continues to inspire new art. (If you’ve just joined us: Dylan rips CDs — really rips them, and a reader suggests cautionary emblems for CDs.)
Now, thesimplicity has illustrated his answer, and I’m beyond words. Tasty:

Yes, we’ll work out how to put some sort of t-shirt version together of these. Meanwhile, what’s that? Dylan shilling for Apple, so he can sell his new CD, the mastering of which he’s trashing in Rolling Stone, in a lossy, compressed digital format encoded with DRM?
Actually, it is a good song. I think I’ll skip iTunes and buy the CD.

Previous image (and my personal favorite), ready for application at your local CD store:









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Leave a CommentSimon
“Actually, it is a good song. I think I’ll skip iTunes and buy the CD.”
That’ll show him!
September 1, 2006 @ 11:28 am
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September 6, 2006 @ 11:18 am
The Coyote
Ah - back to protesting!
I’ll have to get his new album and see what he’s protesting?
Coyote
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February 13, 2007 @ 3:26 am
Manko Eponymous
Oh, c’mon, he’s Bob Dylan, alright? He’s made a living expressing his truths in a simple, odd way, sometimes with hyperbole. When Lou Reed says the same thing in more technical terms (crowing about how there’s no compression at all on the Raven cd), nobody mocks him…at least not around me…which is prudent of them…
What he’s saying is important: pop music production has abolished negative space and made the world a much louder space, in addition to making it harder for home studio artists to get any respect.
May 17, 2007 @ 7:23 am
Peter Kirn
It’s a loving mock. It’s a great phrase: “CDs have sound all over them.” Hence, pleasurable to take completely out of context. ;)
May 17, 2007 @ 9:55 am
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November 16, 2007 @ 4:16 am
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