{"id":1922,"date":"2009-04-29T12:48:48","date_gmt":"2009-04-29T20:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/?p=1922"},"modified":"2009-04-29T12:48:48","modified_gmt":"2009-04-29T20:48:48","slug":"shiny-toy-guns-major-tom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/29\/shiny-toy-guns-major-tom\/","title":{"rendered":"Shiny Toy Guns &#8211; Major Tom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been seeing the Lincoln MKZ ad on television for a few weeks and I&#8217;m starting to dig the song. After a quick search, it turns out the song is a cover of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VW0_kTYvARc\"><strong>Major Tom (coming home) by Shiny Toy Guns<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n<p id=\"flashVid-1922\">[Please visit blog post to view streaming video]<script type=\"text\/javascript\">swfobject.embedSWF( \"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/VW0_kTYvARc&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;fmt=18\", \"flashVid-1922\", \"425\", \"344\", \"9.0.0\", expressInstallLocation, defaultFlashvars, defaultParams, defaultAttributes );<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Generally, I&#8217;d just tweet this but it turns out that Shiny Toy Guns is giving away the song for FREE: <a href=\"http:\/\/shinytoyguns.com\/news\/transmission-to-major-tom\/\">TRANSMISSION TO MAJOR TOM. YOURS. FREE.<\/a> They require you to register, but that seems like a small price to pay for getting the song for free. After registering however, it appears to just redirect you to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lincoln.com\/extras\/tvads.asp?id=7\">Lincoln&#8217;s website<\/a>, telling you to look for the download link in the lower right corner.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, I couldn&#8217;t find the download link. Looking at the comments back on Shiny Toy Guns&#8217; website, people were saying it was pulled because they were planning for an official release. However on Lincoln&#8217;s website, their source still links to the song:<\/p>\n<p><code>function downloadSong() {<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp; [...]<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp; window.open('\/extras\/asset\/majortom.zip', '_blank', 'height=100,width=200,top=200,left=300');<br \/>\n}<\/code><\/p>\n<p>If you input <strong>javascript:downloadSong()<\/strong> into the location bar or just open <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lincoln.com\/extras\/asset\/majortom.zip\"><strong>this download link<\/strong><\/a>, you should be able to download the song. It&#8217;s a 10MB file with a 320kbps encoded MP3<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been seeing the Lincoln MKZ ad on television for a few weeks and I&#8217;m starting to dig the song. After a quick search, it turns out the song is a cover of Major Tom (coming home) by Shiny Toy Guns: [Please visit blog post to view streaming video] Generally, I&#8217;d just tweet this but &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/29\/shiny-toy-guns-major-tom\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Shiny Toy Guns &#8211; Major Tom&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[313,1064,312,1065,1063,1062],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}