Ideas for a Recording Industry Alternative?

Posted by Cliff on Monday November 11, 2002 @09:34AM from the stuff-to-talk-about dept.

icewalker asks: "There has been a lot of news (here, here, and here) lately about music, copy protection, and other related issues. What I find interesting is that there are literally thousands of free bands out there that are more than worthy of listening too. Free as in they have not sold their souls (not to mention music rights) away to the devils of the music industry. But how does one get to listen to these pioneers of music? The solution could be sites like mp3.com (until the mp3 royalties are forced). But what people want is a locals only site that streams, guess what, the music from free local bands only. Not just for your community but local bands from all over the US (and the world). We need a site that collects these bands and we need a streamer that plays them. No CARP royalty problems since these bands are unsigned and own the music themselves. Make it so that the artists can hopefully sell their own CD's or single songs from the same site. Anyway, mix and bake at multiple bit rates and you have a solution to the copy protected CD (I haven't bought one yet from an Indie Band). The big guys go down because they can't compete with free, better than great music on the web with a low cost distribution. So, where is this utopia? Oh! And dump the necessary registration required to listen (are you listening mp3.com?)."

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No shit! by CakerX · 2002-11-11 11:22 · Score: 0, Flamebait

NO SHIT SHERLOCK. Boy the people who run slashdot must spend their life in a closet. The best bands are not signed. Most of the shit I listen to is from bands not on an RIAA company. Don't any of you listen to ANY alt/goth/punk/rock/etc... If you did, you would know this. EVEN IF YOU KNEW VERY LITTLE ABOUT IT. Also, mp3.com has tons of unsigned bands with free mp3s, as they have for YEARS, so does iuma.com, audiogalaxy, etc...

This is fucking old news, whoever oked this for the main page is a fucking retard, who never did his homework up until now. the RIAA controls the radio waves and MTV so nothing non-RIAA will ever be played on commerical radio/MTV. But there are still big "underground"(non RIAA) bands,(dead kennedys for example)