Well there are label services like
http://www.emusic.com
There is the MP3 subscription of
http://www.badorb.com
and there are purely free releases like those from
http://www.mono211.com
and
http://www.subverseco.com as well as a miriad of others.
I'm not sure how the above differs from the question you asked below but I
can confirm that there are plenty of ways to receive MP3s for free as well
as for money.
Shimone/Justes
http://www.staticbeats.com | Electronic Music > Digital Culture
----- Original Message -----
From: "cutups" <cutup@andythepooh.com>
To: <idm@hyperreal.org>
Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 4:37 PM
Subject: [idm] mp3/subscription service
i've heard this notion brought up before, and i thought i'd post about it:
is there anybody out there (labels, or artists) that's selling music in a
purely digital (mp3?)
format? like for example - having a server that people buy a subscription
to gain access
to all the releases on mp3 (high quality of course). perhaps you could
offer special
releases for "free" (on vinyl, or tshirts, etc) to subscribers that you mail
to them, as an incentive to subscribe
rather than just get the releases 2nd hand filesharing.
i know tracker groups do this in a way, although the ones i always followed
gave their music away.
of course there alot of issues with this model, and there might be a better
one.
but it would seem like something that would involve little risk to set up,
as opposed
to printing tons of cds. plus it might address the fact that more and more
people listen
to digital formats when it comes down to it. and it allows them to feel
satisfied that
their money is going to the artists more directly.
- cutups
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