warnin- people ripping myspace audio and sharing on soulseek

[dylan nocturnal]

ez luke, so this is where you been frequenting recently... nice forum man, like dsci4, but more updated, when we gonna roll witht the tech percussion rudeboi? bell me when your free innit, im off for summer now so plenny of time

[relaks]

I know this is rinsed but fuck it, gotta be said.

As far as I can see free mp3s of your tunes are not hurting people like Luke Envoy or myself or other artists of the same scale.

I'll try to keep this short. It's VERY VERY hard to make ANY money from 12" sales, ask anybody who actually does it. I am a working musician, no day job. I sell vinyl, CDs (to a lesser extent) and I do gigs. The money I make selling recordings is not worth mentioning. The money I make from gigs pays the rent and keeps the lights on.

In my mind there is absolutely no doubt that mp3 helps the gig process. Goes something like this: more people hear the tune, like it, recognize your name, turn up when they see you on a flier, party is full and cracking, you get a big response when you play a tune that people have heard before, promoter doesn't lose money, books you again, electric company doesn't turn off power, you keep making music.

I am actually seriously considering starting to give away a large portion of stuff online, for free, as I think there's a very good chance I would make more money doing it.

This equation clearly changes when you're selling CDs or more than a few thousand copies. Up till then though, as the artist, you can watch labels, distros, shops keep any profit generated by your tunes on 12" and hope that you get booked because of it.

Big up shadetek! Whether or not you 'support' filesharing this is very REASONABLE thinking. In my eyes, anyways. ree spek.

[mattdv]

I'll buy mp3's where ever I can get from, I did use p2p to get into dubstep, but I can see the need to support the artists, my logic is I'd buy the CD's so I'll buy the releases on mp3's...though it does get frustrating waiting for mp3 releases. Especially when your wanting to push the sound on student radio stations up here. Maybe it's time I take the plunge and buy some decks.
Though I have to say I can definetley see Shadeteks point of view.