Brad Turcotte (born November 14 1976), a member of the one man band Brad Sucks, was among the first musicians to take full advantage of the Free Culture movement for advertising and distribution. Turcotte opened his website in 2002 with the intention of producing "open source music". His self-produced single, "Brad Sucks One", included the audio source files used to create the finished files, … Wikipedia
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The songs can be downloaded without charge (at www.bradsucks.net/outsidetheinbox ) or a CD of all of them can be ordered for 5 to cover costs, he says. www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2003/10/20/daily8.html
Community Relations Manager Greg DeKoenigsberg interviews Brad Turcotte, the one-man band behind "Brad Sucks," one of the first fully open source web-based recording artists. www.redhat.com/magazine/020jun06/features/podcast_bradsucks/