If you pirate music, you're downloading communism!

[mary]

Hey Trev,
Great job, well said, and inspiring (I hope), to all the other musicians,
out there. I hope all's well with you.

Mary

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Sent: Friday, March 27, 2009 11:33 AM
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Subject: Re: If you pirate music, you're downloading communism!


"it is something we have to live with as our music lives in a digital world"

yes , the way to go seems to be to make some of your music downloadable on
your website, but sell it on cd's (unless you can sell downloadable mp3's
from your website...a big job...i'm looking into it)

no one will buy your music just because it's on cd baby or any of the other
download sites because there are thousands of other bands doing the same
thing. 70% of people find your music and buy it by making an internet search
of your band name or song name, so it's really best to do it all from your
own site as long as your site is properly set up as far as keywords and
search engine friendliness is concerned.

myspace etc is just an extremely well thought out website with all the
tricks in the book and is designed to remove power from the individual and
pass that power on to the"big boys" who make a fortune out of it.

people buy cd's because the music or name has been imprinted into their
hearts and minds. the best way is for them to see you live (if you're good),
the other way is to be influenced by the media (only signed bands can do
this), or by personal word of mouth.

in the good old days, the chances of making music a full-time occupation was
one in a thousand...now it's one in a million.

don't give up the day job lol

judge trev

ps buy my stuff... i'm one of the few old-timers who still lives off
it...even if you do it out of pity lol (do i have your hearts...and minds?)


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From: "SHLL (Scott Heller)" <shll at HAGEDORN.DK>
Sent: Friday, March 27, 2009 7:16 AM
To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET>
Subject: Re: If you pirate music, you're downloading communism!

> This is a tough subject. Now that I run my own band I can see this in a
> slightly different light. What we have been doing is giving away high
> quality MP3 versions of all our jam sessions for free on our web site. We
> also have all our live concerts recorded and put up on the internet at
> www.archive.org for free. We do not have any of the tracks from our CDs on
> our main web site and hope to encourage people to buy our cds and sonn
> vinyl records! We do put tracks from our cds on myspace, but I think
> myspace has not lead to a lot of new fans for us. Fans that buy our music.
>
> As for illegal downloading, it is something we have to live with as our
> music lives in a digital world. If you release stuff only on cassette and
> vinyl, you will have a lot less problems with this as it is more effort
> for some one to digitize your stuff and put it up. It will of course
> happen.
>
> Our new CD came out last week in Feb and just a week ago, there was
> already a site : www.omega-music.com (I think) and they had the whole
> thing up for free download... What can you do???
>
> Our record label tries to write to these people but if they don't want to
> do anything, little can be done from a small label.
>
> Lucky we do not have to live off music. I am just happy that we can get
> the whole thing to more or less go around and we can still afford to put
> out 1-2 cds a year...
>
> As long as we release music in a digital format, we will live with the
> problem of people getting our work for free.
>
> Scott
>
> www.oresundspacecollective.com
> www.myspace.com/oresundspacecollective