As if the major labels needed any additional reasons to fear for the future, their dependable acts are beginning to abandon them for the freedom of the open market. Counting Crows, perhaps the closest thing to an old-fashioned classic-rock band the '90s coughed up, have sold well in excess of 10 million records for Geffen since their 1993 debut, August and Everything After (their latest, the year-old Saturday Nights and Sunday Mornings, clocks in at over 300,000 thus far and reached No. 3 on the Billboard charts). But now they're getting set to leave the major-label nest. On the band's website, singer Adam Duritz has stated, in rather Jiminy Cricket-like fashion that they want to explore different internet-related possibilities "where the only boundaries are the boundaries of your own imagination." Apparently, Geffen was getting up in the Crows' collective grill regarding such ventures, as Duritz goes on to say that "the opportunities that we want to pursue are often things that our label is simply not allowed to do." As a celebration of entering this brave new world, the band is offering a free download (you have to register for it, though) of their recent live performance of Madonna's "Borderline."
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