Mötley Crüe

May 23, 2000 3:07 PM

Mötley Crüe offers their new single "Hell On High Heels" as a free MP3 download...promoting their upcoming album "New Tattoo", hitting stores, June 20th.

See guys...*that's* how it should be done.

posted by EricBrooksDotCom (8 comments total)

...not that a lot of you guys strike me as Heavy Metal/Biker types.....but perhaps Björk should follow the same example. :0)
posted by EricBrooksDotCom at 3:09 PM on May 23, 2000

(it's not really mötley crüe without tommy lee, but i am just nitpicking, and yes i was this way about john corabi too.)
posted by maura at 3:10 PM on May 23, 2000

"oh bjork, bjork were you brought by the stork or were you created from butter and cork?"

(sorry for the lame brunching link, but i couldn't resist)
posted by mmanning at 3:18 PM on May 23, 2000

Yeah, Eric, but it's Motley F***ing Crue, a band so past their prime they're gonna be doing county fairs with Foghat. They'll hook up with Twisted Sister and Quiet Riot and launch the "Ugly Housewife Tour."

Point being is that any band that's not on top of the world or making money has a vested interest in getting as much press as possible, but once they are King Poobah of the Mountain, they'll use the system to their advantage.

Then again, I happen to think Metallica peaked at Master of Puppets and it's been all downhill since. ;)
posted by solistrato at 3:45 PM on May 23, 2000

Deep Purple offered "Fireball" for download to mark their 30th anniversary. Although most would consider DP to be an ancient relic, they still do rock...
posted by riffola at 4:14 PM on May 23, 2000

afaik, Bjork *has* offered a free mp3 download, just recently - a 'not available on any release' kind of thing.
but perhaps, like acting, it's something she'll do once and never again. cuz she's odd like that. ;-)
posted by prolific at 12:41 AM on May 24, 2000

If only everyone else in the music industry would get the idea that MP3s aren't evil and can be used for good!
posted by schmarley at 10:28 AM on May 24, 2000

Motley Crew.... seriously my man, who in their right mind is gonna download it ?
posted by ocb at 8:00 AM on May 25, 2000