Friday, June 05, 2009
From the words of the legendary...Bob Letsetz
GIVE YOUR MUSIC AWAY!
Please, if you're an indie artist, if
you're not signed to a major label (which probably won't allow you to
do this), PLEASE put up downloadable MP3s on your homepage. Put all
your tracks on MySpace. It's almost impossible to be recognized, to
get any attention in this overloaded world, and you want people to pay
first, in order to check your music out?
If someone's a fan,
they'll give you ALL their money! They'll buy the CD to display in
their home, even if they never fire up their CD player anymore.
They'll buy merch to support you, to show how much they love you. And
they'll buy music for their friends, trying to share the joy with
them! It all starts with the music, but you've got to make the music
AVAILABLE!
The Lezsetz Column
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