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Fri, 17 Jan 2003 14:48:15 -0500
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RE: [idm] 2003: The Year the Music Industry Dies - Wired Magazine, 2/2003
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quoted 9 lines You can't expect to make great music and sell it too... most people>You can't expect to make great music and sell it too... most people >have horrible taste, lets face it. If you truly want to be creative >and break new grounds with your music, you will most likely only >appeal to a very limited niche (like this one), the majority of >paying customers won't get it. (yet) >If you want to make money with your talent, then you have to appeal >to the majority... and destroy your creative potential by going with >where the market goes. Sell, sell, sell. >
Hell yeah. I think some of the more innovative stuff comes from people with some other source of income. They're more willing to say "screw that, I'm going to make what I want to make. I don't care if people buy it or not, I've got another source of income." derek -- eggytoast.com -------------- commerce soon: eggtastic.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org