Guy Garvey Backs Pink Floyd Win
Elbow man claims victory for "the integrity of the album"...
Elbow's Guy Garvey has come out in support of Pink Floyd, who recently won a legal battle against their record label to stop digital sales of individual tracks. The veteran rock band claimed that EMI had no right to allow consumers to buy their work in anything other than its original, album-length form.
"I was over the moon when I heard that Pink Floyd had won," Garvey told The Guardian. "They successfully asserted their right to make their albums available only to download in full, and not as individual tracks. It wasn't because I saw it as a David v Goliath victory – Pink Floyd are pretty gigantic – but because, as a musician, the integrity of the album means everything to me."
He continued: "We wanted our most recent album, 'The Seldom Seen Kid', available only to download in full, or in bundles of tracks – but we were met with huge opposition. We think of Elbow albums as novels with chapters. When you've put your heart and soul into something, you want people to hear it as it was intended."
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