From today Consumer Electronics Association Daily Brief:

"It's bad karma as a musician to spend energy trying to stop people from listening to your music," says Wilco's chief singer and songwriter Jeff Tweedy. "If someone downloads our record and plays it to five of their friends, that's five more people who just might come and see us play. For us, that's how we've made our living." The band is no stranger to the value of digital freedom. When their then-record label Reprise rejected Yankee Hotel Foxtrot because it was "not commercial enough," Wilco bought it back and put it out for free. When they finally released it, it became their best-selling album. When copies of A Ghost is Born started shooting around the Web before the record's official release, fans contacted Wilco and wanted to pay for it in good faith to show that the downloading community wasn't about piracy but about the artists. Wilco directed the money to Doctors Without Borders. The album went on to sell more than previous, and the band started regularly posting free tracks, remixes and live concert recordings on their Web site. Just another way digital freedom is supporting fans and artists alike.