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Dave Dempsey

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19. 2. 2009 - 12:13

Today's webtip: Pay to Play

A band wants to pay you to play their music. Payola in the days of download.

Hypebot has an interesting link to a band with a new perspective on the whole Digital Dillemma. Not the Digital Dillemma faced by major labels who are looking to cash in on their speculation, the DD faced by the rest of us. How to get people to hear our music.

Screenshot der Website mystimuluspackage.org

mystimuluspackage.org

Their answer?

Pay people. I guess they must have thought that if it worked for the labels back in the day, it might just work for them as well. So if you head on over to their album site you will have the chance to either take (and get $1) or give (and donate $1) if you download their album.

Sounds like a steal to me...

mystimuluspackage.org

And for those of you who don't know hypebot but are interested in the whole music business mess thing, it is very much worth checking out.

www.hypebot.com