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Web-Only Album Wins Grammy

Posted by timothy on from the kids-are-alright dept.

blamanj writes "Jazz artist Maria Schneider won a Grammy last night for her album 'Concert in the Garden.' What makes this unusual, according to CNET, is that she might be the first artist ever to win a Grammy for an album distributed solely on the Web. None of the sales were in record stores, and the album was financed through Artist Share."

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  1. Re:Music Without The Middlemen by ChuckSchwab · · Score: 0, Troll

    Oh great. Here we go again. Making a mockery out of the role of the "big, evil" music companies. Did you forget that you probably wouldn't even want a lot of the music you buy if not for the record companies' marketing of the artists? This is just another thinly veiled attempt to justify pirating music: "Oh, publishers are obsolete they need to get with the program and find a way to profit off of people stealing music..."