Re: "art" & money, was: amanda palmer

[Sylvain Poitras <sylvain.trombone@gmail.com>]

Loaf,
You might like to read Net, Blogs and Rock'n'Roll by David Jennings.
He discusses issues of digital discovery that might interest you given
what you wrote.
Sylvain


On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 9:07 AM, Loaf citious <loafcitious@gmail.com> wrote:
> I had a college prof tell me once (this was some time ago..)
> that records really don't make money for an artist or the label
> that puts out the record unless it goes gold or platinum.
> Now this of course was way before the interwebs blew up
> completely.
> I myself have an older album that I've never done much with.
> Now it feels like I should put this out there and try to capitalize
> on it, and that would be grand thing for myself.  Sometimes
> I feel that I should give it away for reasons of popularity, or
> in today's terms - traffic. Then I'll have some notoriety while
> I make another album and try to sell that one.
> But, the truth of that matter is that the content on the web
> and the popularity of particular content can go stale so fast,
> here today gone tomorrow.
> Perhaps the best thing to do would be to just set up my album
> for sale and then pull some crazy YouTube thing or some other
> outrageous marketing stunt to feed the traffic.
> None the less, this is great topic - Thanks to all for the inspiration.
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