That is a rare outlook among artist today.

 

The public behaves as if piracy is included in the process of globalization. Yeah man, though it..s uninspiring to say the least; Canute says it all.

 

I obtained "The Light...." via colleague as an MP3 file, but I wanted to know more and the CD was hard to find (pre-US release), so had to resort to eBay to find a used copy. Even in the San Francisco area, with only a handful of brick and mortar record stores left, it's kind of like the old days of search and destroy for a particular record.

 
 

Well said

and then there's this...

http://www.thelocal.se/19028/20090423/

Sweden is not the liberal paradise many Europeans believe it is, the fix was clearly in
 
 

the lions share of artists earning are constituted in live and licensing, so, Whitey, whens the tour, thats what i would like to know.

 
 

I downloaded your album having never heard of you, and after one listen-through, I bought everything of yours I could find.
 
 

Thats the spirit, a bit of both.
 
 

Yeah, I heard 'wrap it up' on the new GTA game and after an epic trek on the internet, finally found some of your stuff for sale. Seems like the people who have bought your music jumped through fire to get it.

I think that the ready availability of music via torrent sites etc allows people to be more discerning and will maybe make the record companies get their acts together and release some good music. Nothing too manufactured or clean cut, nothing thats going to appeal to suitable demographics and all that crap. Just something soulful. Thats blatantly wishful thinking though.

On a completely unrelated note, I read 'A Confederacy of Dunces' on your recommendation and thought it was easily one of the best books I've read in years. Thanks!
 
 

Yeah, I heard 'wrap it up' on the new GTA game and after an epic trek on the internet, finally found some of your stuff for sale. Seems like the people who have bought your music jumped through fire to get it.

I think that the ready availability of music via torrent sites etc allows people to be more discerning and will maybe make the record companies get their acts together and release some good music. Nothing too manufactured or clean cut, nothing thats going to appeal to suitable demographics and all that crap. Just something soulful. Thats blatantly wishful thinking though.

On a completely unrelated note, I read 'A Confederacy of Dunces' on your recommendation and thought it was easily one of the best books I've read in years. Thanks!
 
 

I feel that people have the right to listen to music freely and should then buy the music from artists they like... thanks to things like myspace, lastfm, and other places where you can stream full albums people can

so yeah like Shazbot a little of both..
 
 

I feel if you freely share, you're only being realistic.  Besides, if people appreciate it enough they'll support you with donations, actually buying a record or two, and coming to a show.

Besides, free music is really free advertising.

 

I'm doing music business management at uni at the moment and we are talking about how soon music might be 100% free on the interent. It will work in the same way as radio stations work where internet providers will pay a licensing fee. So in theory it wont be free because we will all pay for it when we sign up to our internet plan. The best thing about this is artists will see more money through publishing royalties and wont lose out like they are at the moment. If anyone is interested look up Gerd Leonhard - Music 2.0.

I've really generalised it as the topic goes much deeper but if you have the time, look into it, it's pretty exciting stuff.