Introducing the Team Love Library

posted on / Dec 8th, 2008 tags / News

When Team Love started we had the simple and possibly self-defeating notion that posting all our albums on the website as free downloads would be a good detour around the wreckage of the music industry and a way to avoid getting bogged down in the number one topic of discussion and distraction: piracy, illegal downloads, P2P networks and so on.

Five years later and the debate still drones in the background, and while some bands have adopted a mutated version of the “free download” (pay what you wish, etc), we’ve decided to reshape our policy in a different direction and introduce the Team Love Library. Each month (or so) we’ll be rotating the Library’s selections, featuring different Team Love albums as well as exclusive content such as unreleased songs, live or remixed versions of TL favorites.

The library will be open to the public 24/7, and as we have an endless abundance of MP3’s (we fucked up and made too many of them), anything you take from the library is yours to keep. You will not be notified if you fail to return something on time, and you will not lose your library privileges if you share selections with friends.

To gain access to the library, please create a free library account.

6 Responses »

  1. alix on December 8th, 2008 at 8:50 pm:

    dear team love,
    i love y’all. you never stop putting out great music and stuff.. rabbit fur coat is one of my favorite albums ever, i just bought it for my father. he took me to see jenny lewis at the apollo. he was proud that i like good music like him. i signed up for the library and everything, but with the mp3 thing.. it’s kinda confusing for me because i can download the zip thing, but every time i do a file that has to be unzipped this thing comes up like “this is only a 40 day trial and you’ll have to pay for this eventually” and i’m always afraid i’ll run out of 40 days, i don’t know when that started, i don’t really know. but whatever.

    thanks team love ???

  2. alix on December 8th, 2008 at 9:27 pm:

    nevermind it worked! yay.
    i will definitely look on this every month. :DDD

  3. Evan Braun on December 10th, 2008 at 9:26 pm:

    This is a great idea. I plan on enjoying it every month. It would be awesome if the flowers forever album could be available next month. I bought the LP and did the MP3 download with code that comes with it, however, i lost the files in a computer transfer and now i don’t have any of the MP3s. I realize that you can probably only due certain albums and you have to work it out with artist and everything, but if it was available in the library i would be very pleased.

    Thanks for all the great work you guys do!

  4. Norah on December 15th, 2008 at 6:22 pm:

    you guys keep getting better and better

  5. Samm on December 28th, 2008 at 11:16 pm:

    You guys rock.
    Thank you for EVERYTHING.
    I’ll still buy the albums though. This is just amazing.

    Best record company ever, hands down.

    <3

  6. Doublelucky on January 25th, 2009 at 10:04 pm:

    THANKS FOR THE LOVE!!!

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