If you’re going to any of the dates on Coldplay’s current Viva la Vida tour – which starts today in West Palm Beach, Florida, before winding all through the States and ending up back in Tampa on September 9 — you’ll be gifted with the band’s new live album, LeftRightLeftRightLeft, for your trouble.
Or: You could stay right where you are on the couch (cubicle, kitchen floor, bathtub…) and download the whole thing for free just by clicking here. It’s available until the band plays their final show of 2009 — their website currently says that’s September 19 at London’s Wembley Stadium, but who knows.
So tell us, readers: Will you be collecting your physical copy in person at a show this summer? Or keeping it between you and your laptop? In the meantime, I leave you with my own favorite Chris Martin moment– playing himself as a fantastically insufferable rock star ("Gwyneth’s making drumsticks!") on Ricky Gervais’s Extras:
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the link is not working
The link isn’t working on their site.
im d/loading it right now
If you can’t, keep trying…it will work eventually, but the site is being bombarded right now.
Coldplay can suck it! I don’t want their pretentious, UNORIGIONAL garbage for free!!
Ahhh I will get my copy in less than a week!!!!! Coldplay concert on Thursday!!!
If you are a fan you will like this. I just finished listening to it and they sound awesome live! Dammit I can’t believe I won’t be able to see them! Stupid med school
the link isn’t working. I really hope it stays open for a while, so I can get this. Saw them live last year on Halloween. AWESOME.
One of the worst bands ever.
One of the worst bands ever.
I prefer a nice band to a troll on the internet. Yay Coldplay!
The link isn’t working on the Billboard.com article either, so its safe to say Coldplay.com either experienced too much web traffic and shut down, or they weren’t prepared…
one of the worst bands ever.
one of the worst bands ever.
I love Coldplay. They’re awesome.