“A new way to distribute money to artists”
I’ve been getting more and more emails about “innovative” start-ups promising new ways to pay bands: $1 a month subscriptions, charity methods, t-shirts, etc., but all of these are really creating new ways for middle men to profit off the backs of artists. (Not that journalists don’t, but we’re not taking a direct cut.)
You want to create a new way to distribute money to artists? Buy their albums.
It’s not that money, like the future, is here but poorly distributed; it’s that the future is here, and everything feels like it’s free, yet no-one is really shoving gorgeous boxsets and awesome t-shirts to the fore. Product placement and a removal of feeling like you’re paying for things (i.e. drunk buying boxsets on Amazon, people paying for apps which turn out to be useless on their iPhones..) is the key to “saving music” and un-writing all those “mp3 blogs and free streaming services are killing music (and giving tech blogs loads of traffic writing music’s obituary)”. See also: VCs funding catchall “solutions” to problems that no-one really has, which often add very little value. See also: the lambs frolicking in fields filled with sunshine, get a grip and learn to stop worrying about the death of the artist, the end of the bizniz of music and all that junk…
