Blamstrain albums available for "free" / pay-what-you-want
category: general [glöplog]
Incentives, not inventives :)
@mtl I've been building something related to this for a while, the problem with sellaband and such is that it's the bigger artists that survive there as usual..
@dipswitch Thanks! The effect on warez groups was intended, see below.. :)
@gargaj I haven't really spoken in public about this matter (re: warez groups) but I'm saying this from a long time experience.. Calling the warez scene a distribution channel is giving it way too much credit, and saying that the scene has standards is utter bullshit. :) There's uppity groups, even more strict-fuck-off-sites for torrents / FTPs and generally people are so childishly lulled into their sense of getting everything for free that theres zero appreciation for the work that goes behind it, just appreciation for the cred for releasing shit fast. I would call that a clique more than a distribution channel. Of course there's sensible people too, but they obviously aren't the ones I'm talking about here.
I saw the disrespect first hand when I noticed my stuff going up for SALE on these Russian MP3 sites the instant I released them on sites (did that since 2003, way before Flashbulb did his stunt on waffles, stopped doing that this year tho..), people putting FLACs up on their blogs so the Google results would show tons of them, groups re-releasing / re-encoding my own rips (and missing songs out of the whole album!!), etc etc etc. You can probably understand how frustrating this is. This is worse treatment than most legal distributors give. Yes, most of them are fuckfaces, but at least you have a legal contract with them.
http://www.gabekoch.com/?p=16 is a good read on this
@dipswitch Thanks! The effect on warez groups was intended, see below.. :)
@gargaj I haven't really spoken in public about this matter (re: warez groups) but I'm saying this from a long time experience.. Calling the warez scene a distribution channel is giving it way too much credit, and saying that the scene has standards is utter bullshit. :) There's uppity groups, even more strict-fuck-off-sites for torrents / FTPs and generally people are so childishly lulled into their sense of getting everything for free that theres zero appreciation for the work that goes behind it, just appreciation for the cred for releasing shit fast. I would call that a clique more than a distribution channel. Of course there's sensible people too, but they obviously aren't the ones I'm talking about here.
I saw the disrespect first hand when I noticed my stuff going up for SALE on these Russian MP3 sites the instant I released them on sites (did that since 2003, way before Flashbulb did his stunt on waffles, stopped doing that this year tho..), people putting FLACs up on their blogs so the Google results would show tons of them, groups re-releasing / re-encoding my own rips (and missing songs out of the whole album!!), etc etc etc. You can probably understand how frustrating this is. This is worse treatment than most legal distributors give. Yes, most of them are fuckfaces, but at least you have a legal contract with them.
http://www.gabekoch.com/?p=16 is a good read on this
i dont care much about the inbetween "ethics" or lack thereof, but if your (otherwise free) album gets circulated in a 0-day channel, it has the potential of getting to people who wouldnt otherwise hear about it.
from purely a _publicity_ perspective (and what else would you have for a FREE album?), you're losing out.
from purely a _publicity_ perspective (and what else would you have for a FREE album?), you're losing out.
then again i might've become slightly too obsessed with shotgun-marketing :D apply grains of salt at will :)
If it gets circulated properly, sure, that's why I've been putting them up myself. That wasn't my point though :)
Bumpin' - I just put out a new EP today called "Boiling Point". I don't consider myself a politic musician, but I had to coincide it with the independence day of Finland.
It's only available for PWYW (pay what you want) at blamstrain.com
Here's the blurb:
"A story about how things fall apart told with the aid of pounding techno in 23 minutes; "Boiling Point" is dark, evil and violent in its relentless approach to thematic electronic music. It is unforgiving in its rhythm and immoveable with its stoic synth lines, representing the dark side of the Finnish mentality."
cheers d00dzzzz
It's only available for PWYW (pay what you want) at blamstrain.com
Here's the blurb:
"A story about how things fall apart told with the aid of pounding techno in 23 minutes; "Boiling Point" is dark, evil and violent in its relentless approach to thematic electronic music. It is unforgiving in its rhythm and immoveable with its stoic synth lines, representing the dark side of the Finnish mentality."
cheers d00dzzzz
that description, combined with the word "cheers" is kinda ironic :-)
innit:)