Buy a music CD that contains no music!

If you want to express your sympathy with the artist Danger Mouse then buy his album Dark night of the Soul. It will be an empty CD with the cover label: For legal reasons, the enclosed CD-R contains no music. Use it as you will. The background for this is a legal dispute with the record company EMI. As a result of the dispute Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse have decided to enclose an empty CD-R disc to a book with more than 100 pages of exclusive photos; the book will be hand numbered and only 5,000 copies are being printed. So if you buy it you will not get any music, but you will most certainly get a valuable collectors item. (If you are late, and the limited 5,000 books are sold out, then the empty CD-R can be purchased together with an art poster.

If it hadn't been the empty CD, then the musical experience of the album would obviously have been fantastic. Instead of the empty CD-R it would have been the following 13 produced numbers: "Revenge", with The Flaming Lips. "Just War", with Gruff Rhys. "Jaykub", with Jason Lytle. "Little Girl", with Julian Casablancas. "Angel's Harp", with Black Francis. "Pain", with Iggy Pop. "Star Eyes (I Can't Catch It)", with David Lynch. "Everytime I'm with You", with Jason Lytle. "Insane Lullaby", with James Mercer. "Daddy's Gone", with Mark Linkous and Nina Persson. "The Man Who Played God", with Suzanne Vega. "Grim Augury", with Vic Chesnutt. "Dark Night of the Soul", with David Lynch.

Danger Mouse became known when he produced the Grey Album, a mashup inspired by The Beatles' White Album and Jay-Z's Black Album.

The original Dark Night of the Soul is a poem written 500 years ago by a Spanish poet and religious mystic, Saint John of the Cross. His poem has oftentimes inspired other authors, and the Dark Night of the Soul is still used to describe a person's spiritual journey.

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