He's not the first musician to do this. Although there's some appeal to the "free-beer-sell-peanuts" business model, I can't help but feel that if it caught on,

He's not the first musician to do this. Although there's some appeal to the "free-beer-sell-peanuts" business model, I can't help but feel that if it caught on, the logical end-state would be all musicians giving away their music for free, and they'd have the same problem attracting attention as when they could sell records for a profit.