Celeb Gossiper

 Because of the tough times of the economy, the band Coldplay is doing their part to help others. They are going to be be releasing a live album this summer that they will be giving away free. Yes, for free! The album will be given away to people who attend their stadium gigs this summer.

Chris Martin, who is the lead singer of Coldplay told The Sun:

“We’re playing a lot of shows in the summer and I think what we would like to do is - bearing in mind the recession we are in - record the live album then give it as a gift. “We are just trying to work out how to do that. It’s obviously a bit tricky in terms of record contracts and things but it would be great. Its a way of saying thank you. It’s a tough economy and people are paying a lot of money for tickets.”

The band is trying to work it out so that when you hand in your ticket at the entrance to get into the show, they hand you a free CD back.

Does anyone really see this as a deal? So, people are going to be paying good money to see Coldplay live and they get a CD that is worth, what $15 at the most? They say they want to give “respite” to the people during this recession. They really think that a free CD is going to make people feel so much better for paying $100 to go see them live? Probably not! But I guess it is a nice gesture and the true, hard-core Coldplay fans will love it.

I think that they should just reduce their concert ticket prices to half price and then that will be helping people out with the recession!