My thanks to The Dork Report for sending in this particular head-scratcher. Can anyone help? "A new article by Vice has identified the first official digital download as "Head First" by Aerosmith, June 27, 1994.
I’m digging deep into my college-age memories here, but does anybody else remember "Cage" being available as an official download on the nascent world wide web? This would have been circa late 1994, around the time the VROOOM EP landed. I also remember David Bowie releasing "Telling Lies" as a digital single a year or two later.
Is my memory deceiving me, or does King Crimson deserve some recognition as pioneers in the (legit) digital download biz"
UPDATE
a few hours after posting the above news item this came in from via Salex33 the guestbook:
I checked the ET newletter archive. There is one mention of a Cage Digital download made by Chris Van Allen on Friday 11 August 1995.
It seems it was avaliable at this address:
http://www.rockslide.com/crimson/
I’m digging deep into my college-age memories here, but does anybody else remember "Cage" being available as an official download on the nascent world wide web? This would have been circa late 1994, around the time the VROOOM EP landed. I also remember David Bowie releasing "Telling Lies" as a digital single a year or two later.
Is my memory deceiving me, or does King Crimson deserve some recognition as pioneers in the (legit) digital download biz"
UPDATE
a few hours after posting the above news item this came in from via Salex33 the guestbook:
I checked the ET newletter archive. There is one mention of a Cage Digital download made by Chris Van Allen on Friday 11 August 1995.
It seems it was avaliable at this address:
http://www.rockslide.com/crimson/
