Music video question

[amedia]

Is there any way to download music videos - not the fan kind, I mean the far-less-cool kind made by the original artist - from the Internet? I need a copy of "My Humps" for my gender studies class tomorrow; I've been taping VH1 all week and they're not playing it anymore. I did get "Beep" and "Stupid Girls," which will be awesome for class, and an honest-to-goodness Hasidic Jew rapping, which I'm going to copy for a colleague who teaches a course on rap - but I really want "My Humps"! I can watch it for free anytime I want from AOL or Yahoo or MSN, but I can't seem to get a COPY that I can put on a DVD and play for the class. Any ideas? Thanks in advance!

Comments

[azarias.livejournal.com]

Is this the My Humps that you're talking about?

If so, go here and plug that URL into the first box and hit the download button. When the page reloads, there will be a link at the top labelled "Video Download." Right-click that and Safe As, and change the file extension to .flv

You'll need one of the players listed at the bottom of the page.

If you use FireFox, there's an alternate method here.

And Matisyahu is wonderful.

[amedia.livejournal.com]

Thank you! This looks like a nifty resource.

And the little bit I heard of the Matisyahu video sounded really cool. I thought it was funny that the announcers found it necessary to warn the viewer that this was NOT Weird Al Yankovic.

[littlewings04.livejournal.com]

Matisyahu has a biiiiig following, actually, he's really awesome!

on another note

[rheafire.livejournal.com]

Not that it will help with your class, but have you seen the SNL Chronicals of Narnia rap (http://www.gorillamask.net/snlnarnia.shtml)?

[sidewinder.livejournal.com]

As a general resource, bittorrent is usually a good source for downloadable music videos, though it's a crapshoot if you find what you want (and sometimes you have to download a whole set of videos to get the 1 or 2 you want.)

[pocketwitch.livejournal.com]

I have no resources to add that haven't already been listed, but I just wanted to say that I really wish I could be in your class to hear the discussion about My Humps.

[amedia.livejournal.com]

I really wish I could be in your class to hear the discussion about My Humps.

I would have loved to have had you there! :-)