Bah

[kingandy]

Just found out that the remix of "Magic Carpet Ride" from the "Go" soundtrack is not in fact by Crystal Method, as my MP3 player informs me, but somebody called Philip Steir. I can only assume that it was mislabelled when I downloaded it. Why do people do that? Is it ignorance or malice? I have this vague notion that it may be in order to trick people into buying an album by an artist because they've heard something they liked that's apparently by that artist...

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[stsquad.livejournal.com]

Ignorance probably. Pretty much any satirical song on the file sharing networks is labeled as Weird Al even though many of them are not at all. Given the number of miss-tagged and badly tagged MP3's/Ogg's/etc out there I find it useful to have a decent tag editor handy.

[kingandy]

Ah, now I've always put the parody = Wierd Al mislabelling as false advertising - that is to say, somebody's done their own crappy version of a song and decided "If I say it's Wierd Al people will download it and listen to it!" What I don't get is mislabelling other people's stuff. It's not always the person you've downloaded it from - they may have got it from somewhere else, after all - but ultimately somebody somewhere laughing to himself the bastard.