Comment Give Music Away? (Score 1) 156
When are we going to see this new form of the industry emerge?
See, because right now, song writers, sound engineers, and session drummers are not seeing a dime from concerts and t-shirt sales.
I always hear from these "Internet visionaries" that bands are just going to HAVE start operating this way. Well, unfortunately, the music industry doesn't solely consist of jobless 22 year olds playing guitar for other jobless 22 year olds.
Does everyone involved in the music making profession need to be a touring musician now?
Who is going to step up and reorganize the industry based around merchandise sales? Can't you see some issues with that? What if the t-shirt design sucks? Should the guy who wrote the song or played marimbas on the recording suffer the consequences? How exactly does this business function?