How to capture the Roadburn Festival webcast to disk

[pete howe]

ok..this is a bit offtrack in places, but carries on the "how bands earn 
bread and butter money" by "paid for downloads",..".bands that will never 
get a standard record deal.."
There was an interesting article in the respected Guardian Newspaper.
A certain band were the FRONT PAGE featured band at myspace.com(the bands 
section of myspace)Being a featured front page band is a  big coup on a site 
with 73+million members....Some interesting statistics were gathered...
1) Number of new FREE downloads(each band can make 4 songs free to 
download)- the number ran into hundred of thousands.
2)Number of new fans-AGAIN, the number ran into hundreds of thousands.
3)Number of people who purchased their cd, or paid to download their album 
at "pay sites"......ZERO....
   What does  this tell me???Were they THAT bad?Judging by the people who 
snapped up the FREE downloads..clearly not...
..We basically sadly now live in a world where(especially regards your 
ipod/Mp3 youngsters).. we'll gladly grab something for nothing..but as for 
digging into our pockets for a measly few pence/cents to help a band..well, 
hell, no..lets find some more free stuff on the web somewhere....
  ...Which brings me back to the Roadburn festival stream.If Hawkwind HAD 
made this PAY TO DOWNLOAD, which they PROBABLY SHOULD HAVE DONE, IN 
HINDSIGHT...it would have  been  interesting to compare figures ..
We can also debate the sound quality.."oh its not even 128 mp3 qual, so i'll 
buy the official cd anyway" blah blah...but as most have pointed out..its 
the best sounding recording for many years..And...people happily forked out 
a few pounds for the horrendous quality of the Bring me the head of Yuri 
Gagarin mess...Funny world..
      pete



>From: M Holmes <fofp at HOLYROOD.ED.AC.UK>
>Reply-To: BOC/Hawkwind Discussion List <BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET>
>To: BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET
>Subject: Re: How to capture the Roadburn Festival webcast to disk
>Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 11:03:18 +0100
>
>Jill Strobridge writes:
>
> > ok  I'm a pedant but surely it needs to be much harder than
> > just-a-click-away?  However I have to confess that although I've seen 
>sites
> > where MP3 tracks were available for payment I've never clicked on one!
> > What actually happens when you do?    Sorry if this sounds stupidly
> > ignorant - it is!  I have never downloaded paid music from a web site 
>and
> > have no idea how you pay the fee!
>
>The simplest way is to take an online account, such as Paypal, which is
>linked to your credit card (or you can just put money in from a linked
>bank account).
>
>Then you CLICK on the web button to download the music of choice. You
>select Paypal to pay. That takes you to the Paypal secure site to be
>billed. Another CLICK on the Pay Now button and the money wings its way
>from your Paypal account to that of the band, with a fee going to Paypal
>(2% of small purchases I think). You see the bill later on your credit
>card statement. The band can either use the funds to buy something
>online or decant them to a Real World bank account to spend on beer.
>
>You type in credit card details once at the Paypal site and then
>anything on the web that's for sale really is just a couple of clicks
>away. Businesses that sell on Ebay see regular money coming in that way
>because they relist the same items every day or even every hour.
>Obviously there are many thousands of bands that get their bread and
>butter this way - most of them will probably never ever see a standard
>record deal.
>
>FoFP

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