Maybe I'm the last one to hear about this, but yesterday I heard on NPR about Radiohead selling their next album on their website without a record label. Since bands don't make a ton of money on albums anyway, Radiohead, it seems, has decided to cut out the record company all together. They're offering their album for whatever price you want to pay for it off of their own website. Here's the address if you want to pre-order a copy: click meI always like to see someone sticking it to the man, and this is a bold (but very smart) move for a band that has had it's last few albums on the Billboards.
I've ranted on and on about this before, but back in the day that is how Keith Green (top Christian recording artist in the 70s) sold his music - pay whatever you can or whatever you want. The recording labels and the Christian Bookstores were pissed because he was one of the most popular musicians of the time. They put alot of pressure on him to "do it like everyone else" was doing - selling it at bookstores for a predetermined amount of money. But he felt that he should just sell it for whatever someone could pay, or give it away. Too bad more Christian musicians today don't see their music as a ministry and a service in the same way.
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right on, however do not be misplaced this is the new way to make more money. greedy bastards all. ;-)
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