Animal Crossing Speaks Out Against the RIAA
The folks at Nintendo have included a jab at the Record Industry in Animal Crossing: Wild World for the DS. It amused me anyway.
This can be seen by listening to K.K. Slider's song in the basement of the museum. After listening to the entire song he will give you a copy of the song and the above dialogue takes place.
Actually, last year some guys made these "Power Play" things that looked like N64 controllers that had all the NES games or most of them on it, and never got permission from Nintendo. They shut them down. But besides that, I don't know.
lizard dude, artists have _never_ said this about patrons or sponsors, because it doesn't apply to those: patrons or sponsors are willing to pay a certain sum to support the creation of art, but they don't put a price on art, they don't dictate how much you have to pay to experience the work. it's not a jab at the RIAA in particular, but at all big media conglomerates (the term 'industry' says it quite plainly) that supress free creativity if they don't get a sizeable cut.
When you first go into the museum take a left straight down the steps. There's an overpriced coffee shop down there, and if it's Saturday night, so will K.K. Slider.
And, just to clear things up, I do not seriously think Nintendo id about to lead an anti-RIAA movement or anything. I just found it funny and decided to post it.
You can remove any other comments (this included) but please, PLEASE, do NOT remove yams' comment. It was (slightly wrongly) quoted in that New York Times article. Therefore, yams pwns all.
why do you think this is funny? you guys have a very bad sense of humor. all he means is that he wants to give you his music for free. and to whomever said that they thought it was funny when he said he gave you a bootleg, you have problems.
The "bootleg" is not a copy of the song, but rather something like the MUZAK version of K.K. Slider's songs. The boots suck in comparison to the live versions, there aren't even any vocals. It's like those awful MIDI ringtones we had to deal with in the beginning of personalized cell phone technology. Maybe the words indicate a potential jab, but there's no real jabbing going on in this (awesome) game.
I love k.k slider and his songs especially "i love you".If you have animal crossing you will know he is there on saturday's at 7:30pm.he is well worth seeing and will give you a cd at the end if you have a boom box..go on see him...