I’m doing some work on the website, so if some things seem odd or just aren’t working right don’t worry I’m in the process of fixing them.
Also I was reading this article and thought it was kind of interesting. This guy gives away free content to his viewers and lets advertisements pay for his website and pretty much everything else he does. Which made me think, what if a band tried this approach? With so many major labels bitching about people “stealing” artist’s music (which I think is bullshit, but that’s a post for another time) what’s to stop them from doing what this guy is doing. Like what if we put up all our music in high quality lossless FLAC format for free and put up a couple of ads and a donation thing on the site and let that pay for the costs of recording/mixing/mastering/website hosting/touring/living/etc. I think that would be kind of cool, I would love to be able to go to my favorite band’s website and grab whatever song I wanted for free and at the same know that I’m helping support them just by visiting their site. I would also be able to tell my friends to go check out this great band and download and listen to their music, and the band would get payed from my friends visiting their website.
Although I know the downside is that nobody likes ads (especially me) but on the other hand when you know that they’re being used in this manner (for good instead of evil) I don’t think it’s so bad. The website above talks about how if he put annoying pop up ads and the kind that fly across your screen he would make more money, but he doesn’t because it degrades the user experience to much, I thought that was pretty cool.
Anyway I think I’m going to keep this in mind, it sounds neat to me since it would give us more time to work on songs and stuff instead of having to work ‘real’ jobs to pay for all the recording/mixing/mastering/website hosting/touring/living/etc. stuff and try to squeeze in time for music.