Combine my previous post on Yahoo! Music giving the finger to DRM with this bit of news and you can just smell the acrid aroma of gut twisting fear coming off the sweaty unwashed armpits of the sleazy recording industry executives.

Ars Technica reports on not just Nine Inch Nails going “free agent but also Radiohead, Jamiroquai and Oasis. It’s the start of a welcome trend that is only going to grow larger with each passing week - and there ain’t jack the recording industry can do about it.

Sue your customers to force them to adhere to an outmoded business model? Fuck you. Listeners love their music and love their musicians and good musicians in return love their audience. Time to show some love. Yo, fat fuck in the suit, sit your sorry ass down we’re trying to enjoy the show.

And while were strolling down the music aisle here’s some interesting side notes:

The U.K. Government has rejected an extension of music copyright to 95 years, as the industry had been so desperately vigorously lobbying for. Instead it will remain at 50 years. This means that tunes by the likes of Cliff Richard will soon be in the public domain - and songs by The Beatles will begin to enter public domain by the year 2012.

All of this is the result of the Gowers Review which had actually been prepared to recommend rolling copyright back to even less than 50 years but decided it would be more politically expedient to simply let it remain where it was. The music lobby will now attack the E.U. in an attempt to get a copyright extension set in stone across all of Europe - but it won’t have the support of the U.K. government.

Rich geezers like Roger Daltry and Bono had come out in favour of copyright extension but as the fledgling efforts of Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails and others takes off maybe those old farts can put on their bifocals and finally read the writing on the wall. The old ways of the music business are dying - and it’s way past fucking time too.

Now all we need is someone with a good solid pair of steel-toed boots to put a good shot in the nut sack of the RIAA.

Cheers.

UPDATE: More bands jump on the, uh, bandwagon - rejecting recording labels and encouraging their audience to steal their songs. TorrentFreak reports on the band Throwdown and their call to action: “If you wanna really support a band, steal their album….help bury the label.” This just keeps getting better and better!

P.S. And just to show you it’s not all good news out there, the UK based Performing Rights Society - their equivalent of SOCAN - is suing an auto garage for playing music too loudly, thus constituting a public performance for which royalties are owed. Fuck off! What did those British retards do, hire some not-so bright light from SOCAN for legal advice? This is right up there with SOCAN’s efforts to strong arm royalties out of hairdressers for playing music in their shops. Everyone needs to stop, take a deep breath, and just fuck off.