The Humble Music Bundle

I really hope that people buy this bundle even if its not the particular songs they are looking for. If this is a flow then it wont happen again but if enough people buy it they will do it again with different songs.<p>Also if anyone from humble bundle is reading this. Linux users are usually your biggest donators insulting them twice in your video is not a great place to be. (im not even a linux user but it was a negative note in a pretty upbeat video). Edit: Yes I am aware that it was probably in good faith but it really did not fit into the video (hence my comment). I was not personally affected because I dont use linux so im not sure how actual users felt.

It's nice to see this taken from Mac and PC games to music, but I'm not sure it makes sense to keep the same charities for this initiative. Instead of Child's Play, which focuses on games, I could see supporting a music-focused youth benefit charity. Certain artists might also chafe at the notion of supporting the EFF, which they perceive, rightly or wrongly, as a force acting <i>against</i> their interests as copyright holders.<p>Here's an (apparently old, with source material no longer hosted on EFF's site) example:<p><a href="http://www.brettglass.com/effcritique.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.brettglass.com/effcritique.html</a><p>And recently from David Lowery:<p><a href="http://thetrichordist.wordpress.com/2012/04/15/meet-the-new-boss-worse-than-the-old-boss-full-post/" rel="nofollow">http://thetrichordist.wordpress.com/2012/04/15/meet-the-new-...</a><p>Fifth paragraph: "<i>... Further the new boss through it’s surrogates like Electronic Frontier Foundation seems to be waging a cynical PR campaign that equates the unauthorized use of other people’s property (artist’s songs) with freedom. A sort of Cyber –Bolshevik campaign of mass collectivization for the good of the state…er .. I mean Internet. I say cynical because when it comes to their intellectual property, software patents for instance, these same companies fight tooth and nail.</i>"

This reminds of the recent Game Music Bundle: <a href="http://gamemusicbundle.com/" rel="nofollow">http://gamemusicbundle.com/</a><p>The difference is that bundle had a <i>ton</i> of albums whereas here it's only a handful. I expected also to see a more game-centric flavour to the soundtracks -- considering the pedigree of the Humble Bundle -- instead of stuff like They Might be Giants.

The music tracks in the BitTorrent downloads are packaged in a zip file.<p>That's pure quibbling on my part but I'd prefer to download a directory as BitTorrent supports that and I wouldn't have to unzip anything.

Next up: Humble Standup Comedy Bundle with Lewis CK, Jim Gaffigan and others..

There are too many greatest hit collections in this, all of which I already own the component music of. If there were some original albums, this would be great.

Christopher Tin is awesome. He did the music intro for Civ IV and did an AMA on reddit recently. I created his wikipedia article back in 2005 I think. :D

I see the charity thing is an interesting angle, but otherwise I'm not sure what the difference is between this and e.g. bandcamp.

Awesome. I have been waiting for humble to do music. The model is perfect for it.

I really hope they release more of these; not interested in this bundle, but I certainly would be in a different combination.

Wishfully perhaps, my right brain read the title as "The Human Music Bubble" before issuing the signal to my left hand to click...

man... Windows users are cheapskates.