Comments on: That’s The Way To Do It!

By: Tom Robinson

Tom Robinson — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 20:53:52 +0000

Haha – well that’s true Steve, if somebody’s absolutely determined to save themselves 79p at all costs, they can indeed rip the streaming audio from a web page. But it’ll only ever be 96kbps quality from MySpace and 128kbps from most others.

Whereas if a track’s played on Radio 1 it can be recorded through a decent FM stereo in very-much-better-than-mp3 quality. But you never hear of record companies only letting Zane Lowe and Huw Stephens broadcast 90 second clips of their latest releases.

There’s no logic to it, that’s all I’m saying.

Only a tiny minority of artists ever get their work played on national radio in any case. If an artist won’t even stream it on their own web page how else are people ever going to hear it?

By: Steve Wilde

Steve Wilde — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:42:48 +0000

Not wishing to sound all Bono-like [Dawkins forbid!] If a track can be streamed it can be recorded by Audacity or similar… Now where’s that “Home Taping Is Killing Music” T-Shirt?

By: Tom Robinson

Tom Robinson — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 18:03:43 +0000

We already need to find some other way of making it all work financially – for one possibility check out http://www.pledgemusic.com

Just for the record, the label aren’t giving away free downloads of the above single. They’re just letting people hear it for free online… The argument is over whether this will decrease or increase sales.

By: Greeble Few

Greeble Few — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 09:05:36 +0000

Ah, but playing devil’s advocate – at what point do we come so close to just giving it away, that we just give it away and find some other way of making it all work financially?