awsome... there is some good stuff there too :)
urb wrote:
quoted 54 lines I don't really want to take part in this "Indie Ethics" thread, but
>I don't really want to take part in this "Indie Ethics" thread, but
>maybe some of you will find this mail I got today interesting. Tellé
>is a smallish, but quite famous, "indie" label here in Norway. They
>release mostly house (but quite idm'ish at that).
>
>--snip--
>
>Yesterday (11.03) we here at Tellé got thrown in to the discussion
>about free downloading of music from the internet. It was a reporter
>from the Norwegian newspaper Dagens Næringsliv (More like the Norwegian
>Financial Times) who asked us what we thought about the fact that last
>year the Norwegian people downloaded music for 7 billion Norwegian
>Kroner? And they were wondering how this affects us?
>
>The Norwegian major labels don't like the fact that people get their
>music for free, it is the same with major labels all over the world, I
>guess. They think that they will make less money. I heard that the
>Norwegian CD sales were growing with more than 10 % last year. So if
>they loose money I guess it is the independent labels that are growing!
>
>Why? I thought. Maybe it is the fact that we don't use most of our time
>and money to chase down these sites were you can download music, we
>focus more on the good music and less on the possible sale of the
>record. We are always in an attacking position. We constantly want new
>people to hear our music.
>
>Anyway, we here at the Tellé office download a lot of music every day,
>we respect the artists that we download, and if the music is good, we
>probably buy the Vinyl (or maybe the cd) anyway. We thought that we
>should show our gratitude to our downloading friends, to our music
>scene. So that is why we now publish 4 albums and 1 single release from
>Telle Records as free downloads, we even put out an easy-to-print
>artwork.
>
>It is now possible to download Bjorn Torske's album Trobbel, Kaptein
>Kaliber's 3 albums Pop Ultra 1, Pop Ultra 2 and Pop Ultra 2b
>(previously unreleased!), as well as the 7" I will always remember you
>by Fredrik Saroea (feat. Annie), from www.tellerecords.com
>
>So, on the behalf of Tellé and the featured artists, we hope you enjoy.
>
>Take care
>
>--snip--
>
>--
>regards,
>urb
>
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