Thursday 1 January 2009

A Happy New Year to All my Readers!

So it is Jauary 1st 2009. The music business is going into a kind of meltdown. This could be a good thing. There is so much new and old music that is easily accesed that we really do need some kind of taste police. We as individulas are that taste police. I can count on the fingers of two hands the actual records that I have bought in 2008. I even bought a double album on 12 inch vinyl! It is so tactile... the thrill of placing it on the turntable...reading the text without the aid of a magnifying glass... but the joy of dicovering new/old music is still as great... this year with the aid of Last FM and We7 websites I have been able to listen to new releases without feeling guilty about royalties to lesser known acts...as these websites are, according to reliable sources paying proper royalties to the acts featured. Indeed some can be downloaded free, admittedly with adverts (but I'm sure the clever amongst you can....)
As a musician I have some diffuculty with free downloading of unestablished artistes, so in the spirit of fuzzy, now I have the knowledge to up load I will only, " support the artists" and ask you to, "please BUY the music you like, visit concerts, buy merchandise. It's one thing to be able to discover a whole new world of music you might otherwise never have had access to, but it would be pretty stupid not to honour and value the creative genius of the people involved. So please allow everybody their fair share."

I believe in the not too distant future that when buying a concert ticket you will get the latest release from the artist as part of the package. They will give the album away with the concert ticket! But the tickets will be more expensive! £200 for Eric Clapton any body?

Any way have a good new year.

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