The Professional Suicide of a Recording Musician

[djshiva]

VERY interesting story about the recording industry and how the internet has changed things (for the better?). you decide.

http://www.alternet.org/story/50416/

discuss.

[echo wanderer]

I'll finish reading this in a little bit(at pg. 3),but really interesting no doubt.

It might end a few debates between musicians,record companies,and the RIAA.

Very cool find!

[djshiva]

I'll finish reading this in a little bit(at pg. 3),but really interesting no doubt.

It might end a few debates between musicians,record companies,and the RIAA.

Very cool find!

haha...dunno if it will end the debates, but hopefully start a few concerning why musicians continue to let the past/current recording industry practices dictate how we do things.

[testfeld]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AJxc3Lxn4o

[ozols man]

good article, i reckon that careers founded on the intertnet can easily be destroyed by the internet though...

[misk]

good article. it stands as a good reminder that the previous music business paradigm has already shifted.

sometimes we forget.

[djshiva]

good article, i reckon that careers founded on the intertnet can easily be destroyed by the internet though...

well, part of the point is that the majority of musicians actually make their money from live gigs. so the internet is a promotional tool unlike any other to get your music heard in places that it would never have been heard before, which extends your reach as far as getting gigs. that's the theory anyway...