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

[Florian Anwander <fanwander@mnet-online.de>]

Hello

Loaf citious schrieb:
> 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.
This is true. At the pre-web aera the real earnings came from the 
royalties payed by the radio and TV. And radio based airplay featured 
again the sales of the hardware media.


> 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.  
I only can encourage you. I wanted to do so too, unfortunately my 
co-author had died some years ago and the legal heirs did not agree with 
this publishing.

> 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.
Don't underestimate this part. It is a lot of work. And what looks funny 
and easy on youtube is typically done by very clever and specialized 
marketing companies.

> None the less, this is great topic - Thanks to all for the inspiration.
I agree (though I was a little bit disgusted by the original posting 
blog-entry).

Florian