Should you give your music away ?

[teknonotice]

Malta love it hard YouTube - maltateknoauthorit's Channel


this was last weeeknd at Liquid a small underground club ...with turbosound I may add

Sky club much bigger..elevated DJ booth, proper!!

[clubsynthetic]

Why not just start a website, and charge 20p each track in (an increasing) wav library? If other good artists want on it split it 50-50 with them. Making it a better deal for the arist direct.

Despite folk copying and illegally downloading them, i think there would be enough folk in the market that would be respect to the music and pay for it and also because they are not getting shafted by some corperate ****er. A bit easier if you are, say, an established label. Cut out all the middle men and undercut them. Obviously i'm not sure about website costs and matenence, bandwidth, etc. If you sold 1000 downloads worldwide of all tracks/artists how far would that money take you on your website?

WAVs for 20p. It would sound ultra tempting for me..

[Methodixxx]

yeah, maybe my tuna's a bit dated these days.

:lol:

[gustavo]

Waves for 20p seems completely unrealistic to me in the End labels would Pay to sell music

1 euro per wave would be an Excellent price

[Igneous]

If you can afford to give your music away then do it & let the world sort its self out.

I don't think free music is devalued, especial if it makes me want to dance or stirs my emotions.

[The_Laughing_Man]

If you can afford to give your music away then do it & let the world sort its self out.

I don't think free music is devalued, especial if it makes me want to dance or stirs my emotions.

Ok I kinda agree in a way.
But then what are DJ`s getting payed for?
Playing other peoples music?
WHy should they get paid, for only playing it? Which took 5 mins to download, when the maker could have taken a week or two to perfect the tune?

As long as the DJ`s are getting paid, the bar staff are getting paid, the soundsystem guys are getting paid, the door staff are getting paid etc then there is a so called industry and the people providing the music that the entire scene is built upon should also get their piece of bread.

I say again why pay for anything? why just stop at music?
We live in a capitalist world.

[DannyBlack]

DJ's get paid? :lol:

[DarkYoung]

DJ's get paid? :lol:

yes mate, depends on:

how well you know the promoter X
how ****ing inanely stupid he is

[Igneous]

Ok I kinda agree in a way.
But then what are DJ`s getting payed for?
Playing other peoples music?
WHy should they get paid, for only playing it? Which took 5 mins to download, when the maker could have taken a week or two to perfect the tune?

As long as the DJ`s are getting paid, the bar staff are getting paid, the soundsystem guys are getting paid, the door staff are getting paid etc then there is a so called industry and the people providing the music that the entire scene is built upon should also get their piece of bread.

I say again why pay for anything? why just stop at music?
We live in a capitalist world.

I guess I see music as something different to most products & services.

[Mindful]

Ok I kinda agree in a way.
But then what are DJ`s getting payed for?
Playing other peoples music?
WHy should they get paid, for only playing it? Which took 5 mins to download, when the maker could have taken a week or two to perfect the tune?

As long as the DJ`s are getting paid, the bar staff are getting paid, the soundsystem guys are getting paid, the door staff are getting paid etc then there is a so called industry and the people providing the music that the entire scene is built upon should also get their piece of bread.

I say again why pay for anything? why just stop at music?
We live in a capitalist world.

I give quite a bit of my music away for free (free net labels etc), I really don't mind if I'm happy with the music that I'm sharing. The reason I don't mind this so much is because it doesn't feel like anybody is making money from me (although of course somebody is) so if they are not getting paid from my work then I dont mind not getting paid for it (for now)

Your point is a great one though. In a case where everybody but the actual artist who wrote the music is getting paid (because of that music) that kind of blows dog shit big time.
Like you say the entire scene is built upon this music so for the actual source of all this to be the only one not getting a slice is quite bizarre ... even the cows that McDonald's get their beef from get fed... makes me kind of feel lower than a pre slaughtered hamburger