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Only people who don't want to be there or also people whose contracts keep them from being there? Danger Mouse and his Dark Night of the Soul is a good example.
by goldfeld 14y ago
Only people who don't want to be there or also people whose contracts keep them from being there? Danger Mouse and his Dark Night of the Soul is a good example.
- aw3c2 14y agoI haven't heard about it, mind to elaborate? People who sign with commercial labels, feed on their promotion etc and then say they want their music to be free are hypocrites to me. If you want to release your music for free, then choose a CC license and share it. Easy as that!
- mindslight 14y agoHow is that at all hypocritical? Signing to a major label and publishing torrents are both ways of giving your recorded music away for free, hoping for publicity that will make you money on tour.
- aw3c2 14y agoConventional labels needs the revenue of record sales. So if the artist gives away the music for free they might ruin sales. The label would still pay for promotion etc so it would probably be a loss. Touring money is usually more going into the artists' pockets, so that would not do the label much good.
- mindslight 14y agoYou're purposely missing the point - Artists have been giving away their recorded music for free ever since Hollywood accounting was invented. Much as how labels didn't care about properly compensating artists, artists don't care if the labels make bad investments by relying on projected figures that no longer correspond to reality.