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Band Invites Music Copying
R C writes "The BBC is currently running a story about the band Carbon Silicon, including former members of The Clash and Generation X. The report claims that the band is encouraging fans to download tracks, demos, and works in progress from their website . Talking of re-capturing the culture of recording a tape to lend to your friends, they believe that the free availability of their music won't affect sales, and that the availability extra material like tracks in development will attract and engage even more fans."
What we need now is Open Source Songs. Tracks in development are released and fans can chip in and make those songs better.
Rock that crushes, Paper & Scissors that don't matter.
Unfortunately, their web server is now a melted mass of carbon and silicon. I hope Slashdotters buy a load of CDs to replace that bugger!
Wow! Too bad Nobody else does this!
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For example recently I discovered http://magnatune.com/ which is a whole label following the same idea.
I think people should really encourage this and btw. they have some pretty nice music there.
(No, I'm in no way affiliated to them, I just like the concept and hand a fun afternoon recently listening through their offerings.)
You're music is going to get copied no matter what. All attempts to prevent consumers from making copies of CDs are bound to fail. There will always be a work around.
Instead, what bands should be doing is embracing the ease that they can get their material out there. You no longer have to beg and plead with radio stations or record companies. My band, The Dirt (shameless plug http://www.tractorgrease.com/) is taking that approach. You put a lot of time in recording your self and mixing/mastering tracks and then just give away your music? Well that's the reality of it if you want people to listen, especially as a new band.
People need to feel like fans, not criminals when they try to get music from their favorite bands.
Like the Grateful Dead? And all the bands that followed their lead, giving us over 1000 different bands with music on the Internet Archive's Live Music Archive, and thousands more that allow their music to be legally traded on the Etree Torrent server?
Ok, so you may say that's just live music, but if you want studio music, there's the Internet Archive (again) with Netlabels and Open Source Audio. I'm sorry, but I'm not seeing the news here.
Link here. They've only got about 6800 recordings so far, but it's only going to get bigger.
I remember The Offspring tried to give away an album in 2000 as mp3s on their website but had the idea shot to shit by their record label.
Sony Forces The Offspring to Cancel MP3 Giveaway.
> a rock band based in Bangalore
Holy shit! They're outsourcing rock n roll now?!
Circumcision is child abuse.