Comments on: The Day the Music…Came Back to Life http://www.markevanstech.com/2007/10/10/the-day-the-musiccame-back-to-life/ Insight and Analysis from North of the Border Sat, 22 Nov 2008 13:37:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: datalus http://www.markevanstech.com/2007/10/10/the-day-the-musiccame-back-to-life/#comment-7109 datalus Thu, 11 Oct 2007 23:59:33 +0000 http://markevanstech.com/2007/10/10/the-day-the-musiccame-back-to-life/#comment-7109 Interesting, what I find a little strange, though, is that two days after he released his news post about foregoing a label he released information on selling y34rz3r0r3mix3d through Interscope records...hmmm. Interesting, what I find a little strange, though, is that two days after he released his news post about foregoing a label he released information on selling y34rz3r0r3mix3d through Interscope records…hmmm.

]]> By: Chris Garrett http://www.markevanstech.com/2007/10/10/the-day-the-musiccame-back-to-life/#comment-7097 Chris Garrett Thu, 11 Oct 2007 09:08:21 +0000 http://markevanstech.com/2007/10/10/the-day-the-musiccame-back-to-life/#comment-7097 What did you mean when you said "there’s little indication that selling directly to consumers has worked"? It certainly seems to from what I can see. When a band doesn't need the labels and continues to succeed that seems to be an indication it *does* work? Marillion fund their album production entirely from pre-orders since their first experiment in 1999 and haven't looked back. Why do you think it hasn't worked? What did you mean when you said “there’s little indication that selling directly to consumers has worked”?

It certainly seems to from what I can see. When a band doesn’t need the labels and continues to succeed that seems to be an indication it *does* work? Marillion fund their album production entirely from pre-orders since their first experiment in 1999 and haven’t looked back.

Why do you think it hasn’t worked?

]]> By: Magnus http://www.markevanstech.com/2007/10/10/the-day-the-musiccame-back-to-life/#comment-7095 Magnus Wed, 10 Oct 2007 20:30:12 +0000 http://markevanstech.com/2007/10/10/the-day-the-musiccame-back-to-life/#comment-7095 If the record industry would embrace the technology and get creative like the artists they would be making more money. They tend to focus on the negative to create some sort of scare tactic and the results have been, well, negative! If the record industry would embrace the technology and get creative like the artists they would be making more money. They tend to focus on the negative to create some sort of scare tactic and the results have been, well, negative!

]]> By: John http://www.markevanstech.com/2007/10/10/the-day-the-musiccame-back-to-life/#comment-7090 John Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:30:02 +0000 http://markevanstech.com/2007/10/10/the-day-the-musiccame-back-to-life/#comment-7090 Although I don't like their music, Radiohead and 9 Inch are pretty smart. Besides, private peer to peer is slowly catching on (as it's 100% legal) and applications like GigaTribe are making it easier and easier for friends to share entire folders of files, including albums: http://www.gigatribe.com Although I don’t like their music, Radiohead and 9 Inch are pretty smart. Besides, private peer to peer is slowly catching on (as it’s 100% legal) and applications like GigaTribe are making it easier and easier for friends to share entire folders of files, including albums: http://www.gigatribe.com

]]> By: Blog Feeds about Music » Archive » The Day the Music…Came Back to Life http://www.markevanstech.com/2007/10/10/the-day-the-musiccame-back-to-life/#comment-7089 Blog Feeds about Music » Archive » The Day the Music…Came Back to Life Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:29:37 +0000 http://markevanstech.com/2007/10/10/the-day-the-musiccame-back-to-life/#comment-7089 [...] You can read the rest of this blog post by going to the original source, here [...] [...] You can read the rest of this blog post by going to the original source, here [...]

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