Saul Williams

I was very excited when I heard that Saul Williams had released his new CD, The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust!. And when I found out that the downloads of the songs were on his site, I jumped on it!

Saul Williams was a big fan of mine when I was going through high school. I loved is music and poetry. I'm loving his new CD, and to me it's one of those CDs where you can listen to it over and over and you keep hearing new things in the music. The new Radiohead CD, InRainbows, was much the same way for me, where there are many layers in the music.

I tried to see if the new Saul Williams CD was on emusic since I have an account there, but no dice. Does emusic not do a good job paying artists?

On a technical level I thought that the payment process was a lot easier for Saul Williams' stuff than Radiohead. First off the Radiohead site doesn't even work under Ubuntu 7.10 and 7.04, presumable due to the fact that I am using an older version of Flash, thanks to Adobe's steller support of open operating systems like Linux.

I really liked how they have the following options:

• 192Kbps MP3
• 320Kbps MP3
• FLAC lossless audio

And it also comes with a PDF of the artwork and lyrics! And the PDF isn't just some text, it is a 31.6 MB file consisting of 33 pages with lyrics and artwork, very nice!

One thing that I thought was a little odd was that the payment options for the CD were either $5 or $0. Personally I would have liked to be able to pay more for it, because I think it's worth it!