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Originally posted by Charean:
If anyone was going to start a new business model, it would be Prince.
http://www.npgmusicclub.com/npgmc/index.html
Whether or not you like his music, he is doing something phenomenal. He has taken out the recording companies completely when he went independent. He puts out his OWN CDs, sells his OWN concert tickets and generally merchandises himself. No Middleman.
So he can charge LESS!
He has a few rants of his own and he is very intelligent in getting his points across. (He does use numbers instead of words, but has done that for over 20 years.)
He is going to start a trend that smart musicians will follow in whatever manner they can.
It is called DeCentralization.
And it is better for us.
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Charean, this is the way things should go IMHO, my experience of record co. execs to date has been ... unsavoury. But for an artist to make any living at all by selling their music, they must use some form of copy protection.
The old argument that if it's indie, people will be willing to pay for it just doesn't hold up. Most people, particularly the ones who've grown up with 'free' access to many things, simply do not give a s**t what they take from who.
I've seen it, I know it. If it's not bolted down, it's gone.