The Typing Monkey's parent company, Typing Monkey International (TMI), didn't get to be a global multi-media behemoth by playing nice and giving products away because it makes the primary shareholders feel all warm inside as they use $100 bills to spark up bongloads of military-grade marijuana grown in covert C.I.A. laboratories.
Yet Adult Swim, the late-night programming block on the Cartoon Network (owned by Turner Broadcasting System, Inc, a Time Warner company) has teamed up with the tastemaking independent electronic-music label, Ghostly International, to offer 19 tracks of music for free. Yes, free.
TMI knows that nothing's really free. So by downloading this music, users are probably tagged as part of the demographic who enjoy both comedic animated television programming and dance music made by white guys with high-tech gadgets. You'll be marketed to accordingly, we are certain.
[There's an advertisement for the 2009 Toyota Matrix right there on the download page that encourages us to get in touch with our dark side. See, nerds like that movie The Matrix and the "dark side" calls to mind both Star Wars and horror films. All of which are the exclusive domain of people who also watch Adult Swim shows and understand where the band The Reflecting Skin got its name.]
However, The Typing Monkey cannot resist. So we gobbled up the bait and are enjoying Ghostly Swim while we cautiously continue on with our lives, waiting for the trap to be sprung. Soon enough, we'll probably be cruising the streets in our new Matrix, bumping Dabrye's "Temper" -- which we got for free from Ghostly Int'l and Adult Swim. Did you know, the MSRP for a 2009 Matrix starts at just $16,190?
Get the download here.
Review to come ...
