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The iTunes Store is giving away the Red Hot Chili Peppers' latest album for free, in a manner of speaking. iTunes is serving up a stream of the entire album for free, and accepting pre-orders for the disc, which will be released on August 30 [iTunes].

We can't remember Apple offering up an entire album via streaming before. It's likely that RHCP's record label is paying a hefty price to Apple for this promotion and its prominent placement on the iTunes Store front page.

Top Rated Comments

reden Avatar
169 months ago
This is just like all previous garbage of RHCP, just a bunch of noise. Not worth the storage and bandwidth. And yet they keep on asking money for it.

We know you're just angry because they're not doing this with any Justin Bieber albums.
Score: 6 Votes (Like | Disagree)
zync Avatar
169 months ago
Just like your comment, except for the asking for money part. I'm sure there's stuff that you buy that other people don't like either. That doesn't mean that it isn't good. I never really liked Elvis but that doesn't mean that he sucked. There's no doubting that the Chili Peppers are skilled musicians.
Score: 6 Votes (Like | Disagree)
swingerofbirch Avatar
169 months ago
I think they'll need to do more and more stuff like this. Since downloading Spotify, I haven't touched iTunes. But I'm not sure if iTunes as a music service is as important to Apple as it once was. They've never made a huge percentage of their revenue from it, and their iPod business is shrinking. I could imagine them adding free streaming alongside downloads to create a service similar to Spotify. Although, they don't like advertising, so not sure how they would pull of the free part of it . . .
Score: 5 Votes (Like | Disagree)
ksgant Avatar
169 months ago
No john frusciante. Disappointing.

I know, when I read that he had left the band again I was disappointed too. They really shined with him. I just hope he doesn't revert back to his old ways. I saw a documentary on him and he was so strung out on heroin and totally out of his mind. It brings a tear to my eye every time I see it because I'm thinking we were SO close to losing this guy forever..but he pulled himself out of his spiral and returning to the band really helped.

Again, disappointed that he's not on this album, but, I'll wait to pass judgement.
Score: 4 Votes (Like | Disagree)
AdrianK Avatar
169 months ago
Loving all the 'Don't hate on the artist I like, hate on an artist I don't like from an entirely different genre instead!' posts. :cool:
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)
tk421 Avatar
169 months ago
They should do this with all pre-orders.
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)

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