Marillion’s new album leaked — by themselves

People who have pre-ordered Marillion’s next album Happiness is the road (ETA 20th of September. Nice EPK behind the link!) just got a rather perplexing email. In a pecurial twist from the ever puzzling Marillion marketing machinery, the band has devided to leak their entire album in a battle against having the album pirated.

Whoa. And this is two weeks before release date.

And it’s cheaper than Radiohead’s pay-what-you-want scheme, because you simply cannot pay for the leaked HITR album.

To get the tracks (in mp3), you need to disclose a valid email address and watch a message from the band telling you that hey, we do this for a living so please be so kind and do support us so we can continue doing so. Or something in that sense. I haven’t downloaded anything from there just yet, but i will.

Oh, where is the site? Well it’s kinda secret at the moment. The band will probably issue a statement about the stunt. But for now just google it, and you should find your way.

Update: Sorry about the mess. Reading the site (which i’m still not linking to ) it is indeed possible to pay for the material you download, but for now the site ain’t telling me how. Or it could just be Google Chrome that’s buggy. Or the site. Or something