a bit of a follow-up to what i posted a couple of days ago about record-buying, where it veered off momentarily to ownership issues...
When asked about her involvement with Mininova - this is what Billie Ray Martin had to say:
"Torrent sites are no longer the enemy. All music has basically become free. If a label holds on to their file for dear life, the minute they release it, it will be out there free. It’s a fact and you can’t get away from it. So there’s no point in fighting it. Distributing your music more or less for free might be a bit of a hard-to-grasp concept—it certainly is for me still—but the way it works now is simply that the money is no longer in sales, but in live gigs and licensing. So MP3s are merely there to create interest now. So they’re given out for free really. In a couple of years, all music will be free. Don’t ask me if I am pleased, I’d rather have the $100,000 advances that I used to get from record companies. On the other hand, this process is more democratic. Kids download the files if they like them, you’ve just reached your audience."
so...record sales aren't even worth bothering with anymore? that went much further than i expected.
(fwiw, i bought a bunch of billie ray martin CDs back when she first appeared...and they were terrific.)
source: electroqueer.
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