Emotive wrote:We should be the ones getting payed for advertising their lazy arses.
Maybe. Why not.
I can't buy something that I don't know. I won't buy something that I didn't listened to before. Real fans buy the sources if they are real fans. Or they buy merchandise and go to concerts. That's just how it goes today: You have a lot of music that you don't care too much and you're favourite music that you bought. Or you saw a nice CD for 10 bucks and bought it. I don't think that you buy random cds for 15 bucks or more. I would more likely give a random artist 15 bucks out of my own will because he is sharing his songs for free over the net.
The internet has enormous potential for marketing. Just look at all those artists that get discovered threw the net. Like this little Justin Bieber kid. Look at Perry Gripp who SHARES his songs via the net and some sort of Open Source policy. I has fame, he has fans, he has success and he probably has the money too.
Trent Reznor (NIN) saw the quite enormous potential and used it. Free cds, a whole BIG website for remixes of his songs (remix.nin.com), cds with fan remixes, whole blu ray discs of live concert that made THE FANS of his music... It's like the title of a fan NIN remix album: The Limitless Potential
Fuck the industry for pushing only stuff like Lady Gaga or Justin Bieber in the mainstream media. Media like us is left to push and advertise all those artists that are left behind. Indusrty should be better thankful for all the thousands of dollars that I invested into the hobby and media related to the hobby. As said: I can't invest money into stuff that I don't know. I discovered so many of my favourite artists and shows over AMVs and the internet.
So the industry is angry for me that I didn't invested my money into Lady Gaga or what? FUCK YOU!
God I'm so pissed now.
