Comments on: Download Day http://muddledramblings.com/idle-chit-chat/download-day/ A blog about a geek trying to make a living as a writer Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:20:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jerryhttp://muddledramblings.com/idle-chit-chat/download-day/comment-page-1/#comment-7235 Jerry Wed, 26 Apr 2006 08:06:34 +0000 http://jerssoftwarehut.com/muddled/?p=3568#comment-7235 Hey, Jesse, You might try music.download.com. It's free, but in general you can only download a couple of tracks from a given album. You can find out if you like the band, and if you do, you can buy the CD directly from the band's Web site. It's a good way for you to experiment without risk, and the band still gets a larger cut than if you bought in a music store. The site is reasonably helpful at guiding you to similar bands if you find one you like.The difference between the popular bands on the big labels and the obscure guys just getting by: the marketing budget.Well, that's a bit of an oversimplification -- at least someone must have liked the band to allocate a marketing budget to it, but I think we'll all agree that the big labels are driven by finincial necessity to be somewhat <a href="http://www.polyphonichmi.com/press/San_Diego_Union_Tribune.htm" rel="nofollow">formulaic</a>.This is something I will have to face in my own profession as well. Fortunately, in my genre I'm pretty comfortable with the formula. Hey, Jesse, You might try music.download.com. It’s free, but in general you can only download a couple of tracks from a given album. You can find out if you like the band, and if you do, you can buy the CD directly from the band’s Web site. It’s a good way for you to experiment without risk, and the band still gets a larger cut than if you bought in a music store. The site is reasonably helpful at guiding you to similar bands if you find one you like.

The difference between the popular bands on the big labels and the obscure guys just getting by: the marketing budget.

Well, that’s a bit of an oversimplification — at least someone must have liked the band to allocate a marketing budget to it, but I think we’ll all agree that the big labels are driven by finincial necessity to be somewhat formulaic.

This is something I will have to face in my own profession as well. Fortunately, in my genre I’m pretty comfortable with the formula.

]]> By: Jessehttp://muddledramblings.com/idle-chit-chat/download-day/comment-page-1/#comment-7234 Jesse Tue, 25 Apr 2006 16:44:07 +0000 http://jerssoftwarehut.com/muddled/?p=3568#comment-7234 roll over beethoven and tell tchaikovsky the news.This sounds really good. Especially the part about helping the musicians and not the conglomerates.I dunno what to do because I really like physically holding something in my hand...reading the liner notes...filing on the bookshelf...eLuddite.com roll over beethoven and tell tchaikovsky the news.

This sounds really good. Especially the part about helping the musicians and not the conglomerates.

I dunno what to do because I really like physically holding something in my hand…reading the liner notes…filing on the bookshelf…eLuddite.com

]]> By: Jerryhttp://muddledramblings.com/idle-chit-chat/download-day/comment-page-1/#comment-7233 Jerry Fri, 21 Apr 2006 22:54:01 +0000 http://jerssoftwarehut.com/muddled/?p=3568#comment-7233 For some reason the 'now playing' script does not like Tchaikovsky. I'll figure it out later. I just wanted you all to know that I was all cultured and shit, and that I'm listening to that right now. For some reason the ‘now playing’ script does not like Tchaikovsky. I’ll figure it out later. I just wanted you all to know that I was all cultured and shit, and that I’m listening to that right now.

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