I also thought "AI" at very first. AI vs Al

Also was on the Straight Outta Lynwood album.

Remember Tommy!

Weird Al is just happy if people are listening.

Don’t Download This Song

Once in awhile, maybe you will feel the urge 
To break international copyright law 
By downloading MP3s from file-sharing sites 
Like Morpheus, or Grokster, or LimeWire, or Kazaa 
But deep in your heart, you know the guilt would drive you mad 
And the shame would leave a permanent scar 
'Cause you start out stealing songs, then you're robbing liquor stores 
And selling crack and running over school kids with your car!

So don't download this song 
The record store's where you belong 
Go and buy the CD like you know that you should 
Oh, don't download this song!

Oh, you don't want to mess with the R-I-double-A 
They'll sue you if you burn that CD-R 
It doesn't matter if you're a grandma or a seven-year-old girl 
They'll treat you like the evil, hard bitten, criminal scum you are!

So don't download this song 
Don't go pirating music all day long 
Go and buy the CD like you know that you should 
Oh, don't download this song!

Don't take away money 
From artists just like me 
How else can I afford another solid gold Humvee? 
And diamond-studded swimming pools 
These things don't grow on trees 
So all I ask is everybody please…

Don't download this song (don't do it, no, no) 
Even Lars Ulrich knows it's wrong (you can just ask him) 
Go and buy the CD like you know that you should (you really should) 
Oh, don't download this song!

Don't download this song (oh, please don't you do it or you) 
Might wind up in jail like Tommy Chong (remember Tommy) 
Go and buy the CD (right now) 
Like you know that you should (go out and buy it) 
Oh, don't download this song 
Don't download this song (no, no, no, no, no, no) 
Or you'll burn in hell before too long (and you deserve it) 
Go and buy the CD (just buy it) 
Like you know that you should (you cheap bastard)!

Schfifty-five

I feel like he got "fuck you" money a long time ago if he ever was in it for that.

That’s weird.

Pressed play and record baby. I gotcha.

Thank you.

https://xcancel.com/alyankovic/status/1588719949748776961 - a live link to a twitter mirror, which includes replies, instead of an archive.

No worries, it looks like you have a lot of people willing to help out.

lol, it took everyone like 20 minutes. I also had to leave.

It's kind of funny looking back on albums like that, and the bonus content they would add. It was common early on to write the ToC in such a way that it skipped over a track, so Track 1 would be some ways into the disc, but there was data before "track 1" you could get to by rewinding past 0:00. Later, smarter CD players and especially computer CD-ROM drives wouldn't do that, so that practice started decreasing. But with computers, it was already commonplace for a video game to take up a small fraction of a CD, and then fill the rest with the soundtrack as red book audio, and CD players could still play the music. So they did that for awhile.

There was a brief moment in the mid-2000s where the record labels were feeling the threat of iTunes, so they tried adding value. I have a 2005 copy of Bon Jovi's Slippery When Wet which doesn't have the Compact Disc Digital Audio mark anywhere on it, because it's a DualDisc. It's a CD with half a DVD on its back; so it's slightly thicker than a standard CD and thus non-conforming to the red book standard, and . The CD side is an otherwise conforming red book audio copy of the album, but the DVD side features a very high quality stereo recording, a "made 20 years after the album was mastered so it's slightly janky" Dolby digital 5.1 surround sound version with added length, and the four music videos they recorded for the album in glorious "80's BetaCAM transferred to DVD" 480whatever.

Remember when companies tried to compete on benefits and features?