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By: Battle of Goodrich’s Landing » Ahoy, Mateys!

Battle of Goodrich’s Landing » Ahoy, Mateys! — Thu, 07 May 2009 06:32:27 +0000

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By: Matt Churchill

Matt Churchill — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:41:52 +0000

Thanks for tagging Jed! It’s a topic that I find very easy to get involved with, but very difficult to fully articulate when trying to make my position clear.

@Sue it’d be great if Kristin would allow her fans to create content for her, such as artwork or posters etc as this too would make them feel included in the process

Incidentally, social media Jedi is awesome – i now know what to put in ‘about me’ social network profile sections…!

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:50:31 +0000

Should I be ashamed that I don’t know who ‘donk’ are? We’re not talking Wrestlemania here are we??

Some really good points here Jed. When the music industry are talking about devaluing music by downloading pirate copies, it’s bullshit really, because they created a false economy by opening distribution channels, and then closing them off to musicians. Now it’s all about artists and fans online, and the record companies are outsiders.

So absolutely, why not make them work for their money? Great idea about making CDs into collectors items by adding loads of stuff. And like Matt Churchill says in his response, giving it over to the fans and getting them to do remixes (within reason, of course).

At the moment, they’re not giving us anything with CDs that we can’t already get online. I’d definitely buy it.

By: Sue Keogh

Sue Keogh — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 11:56:10 +0000

I think the model of giving away music for free is working well – but only for established acts eg Radiohead, The Streets who have already spent years building up a following. How it would fare for the young folk act whose only hope for commercial exposure is a brief slot in the Mike Harding Folk Show on Radio 2 or numerous small-scale festivals up and down the country, I’m not so sure.

The Pirate Bay issue is interesting in that they expect to be able to copy all the music for free, but only seem to have the big name artists in mind, who will have plenty of other revenue streams anyway rather than relying strictly on album sales.

One person who for some time has been quietly playing with the traditional model of releasing music is Kristin Hersh. She’s been releasing tracks from her new album in return for a small donation, and people who subscribe quarterly also get extras like a free copy of the CD when it finally goes to print or a place on the guest list at her gigs. http://kristinhersh.cashmusic.org/
So you are making a financial contribution but it’s all going to the recording process rather than into a big pot at the end, with the effect that the fans feel more involved in her music.

By: Pirate Bay - A fight for a Right « The Seldom Seen Kid

Pirate Bay - A fight for a Right « The Seldom Seen Kid — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:03:49 +0000

[...] Pirate Bay – A fight for a Right April 21, 2009 Posted by Matt Churchill in Social Media, Web 2.0. trackback Jed Hallam has tagged me into a post about Pirate Bay, have a look at his views on his blog, Rock Star PR… [...]

By: Adam Lewis

Adam Lewis — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 12:34:29 +0000

What’s with all the donk haters?

By: Sheema

Sheema — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 11:51:20 +0000

Great post! I agree, if Record Labels offered more with their cds, I’d be inclined to buy more cds rather than just downloading them off Itunes.

Oh, and while I’m a fan of Blink 182, I hate “donk” as well!

By: Weekly Round Up 18.4.09 « The Seldom Seen Kid

Weekly Round Up 18.4.09 « The Seldom Seen Kid — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 11:39:20 +0000

[...] explain my views on this further on in the week, as it deserves much more than a paragraph – read Jed Hallam’s observations which are pretty much spot [...]