Wilco releases surprise new album, ‘Star Wars,’ as a free download
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Wilco’s new album is titled “Star Wars” and there’s a cat on the cover and it’s been made available as a free download for a limited time. We’re listening now, but we thought we’d share real quickly, y’know, because of the limited time thing. It’ll cost you your email address, but at least it didn’t zoom straight into your iTunes library.
In the band’s post announcing it, Jeff Tweedy says: “Why release an album this way and why make it free? Well, the biggest reason, and I’m not sure we even need any others, is that it felt like it would be fun. What’s more fun than a surprise?”
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