The Arctic Monkeys' first album was one of the first albums of the post-Napster to era to dash the then-conventional music-industry wisdom that making one's music widely available for free on the Internet was a fool's game. When Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I Am Not was released in January of 2006 - after early demos had been feverishly circulated online amongst fans for a couple of years - it became the fastest-selling debut in U.K. chart history and the public at large woke up to the giddy appeal of the band's exuberant pub-rock and the literary appeal of frontman Alex Turner's laddish poetry.

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