Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:

FoK wrote:

#1: Release the album as a CD (leaving a vinyl option for hipsters and collectors) with the indie-label normal price of around $10-$12.99, and have a few samples available on the website.
Advantages: It seems to have worked for the artists that are currently successful. High profit margin for the one cd that sells before the thing is available for free on Kazaa.
Disadvantages: No one will buy it, except out of pity, when they know they can get it for free.

There's pity, but there's also wanting the music at a higher quality. If you place your music up as an MP3 at 128Kbps and someone downloads it and places it on a CD for their car, it's going to sound shitty in that environment. Sure, some people won't care, but someone who gets addicted to one of your MP3s will. Listening to a tinny or badly sampled version of a song you like gets old quickly.

Also, I don't know if you mean "clip" where you say sample, but if you do, my guess is that it's better to have a few songs in whole available rather than short clips of all songs. People can get addicted to songs, it's real tough to leave clips in your Winamp playlist.


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