My Vision For Music of the Future

[Barbarossa]

Your favourite singers, bands, whoever, will have their own myspace.

When they've finished writing/recording a song, they go "Hey, listen to my new song, 99p for a download". They can do this as frequently or as infrequently as they choose.

The fans go OK. Click. listen. copy it to their ipods and into their playlists, or they go, no that's shit, try again.

money goes straight to the artist, songs go straight to the audience. Knowledge of the bands is spread through fangroups and friends on myspace. Fans create artwork, publish their playlists, etc. Other fans go, "hey, that's nice, I'll download that", etc.

All back-catalogues will be available for all time always. 99p a song.

No repackaged fan-exploiting "greatest hits" or "remastered" collections

Everyone's a winner.

Except the record companies, who don't exist anymore.


Also, on the band's myspace, they go:-

Hey, I'm playing a live concert in YourTown. Get tickets here...

And you go. Because it's cheaper than getting tickets from a toutconcert promoter


What do you think? Too radical?

[bigboab]

Not very fair on the public who do not have access to the internet.

[-ip-opium]

i agree as i do not have a myspace and is just not convenient.

[Snee]

Your favourite singers, bands, whoever, will have their own myspace.

When they've finished writing/recording a song, they go "Hey, listen to my new song, 99p for a download". They can do this as frequently or as infrequently as they choose.

The fans go OK. Click. listen. copy it to their ipods and into their playlists, or they go, no that's shit, try again.

money goes straight to the artist, songs go straight to the audience. Knowledge of the bands is spread through fangroups and friends on myspace. Fans create artwork, publish their playlists, etc. Other fans go, "hey, that's nice, I'll download that", etc.

All back-catalogues will be available for all time always. 99p a song.

No repackaged fan-exploiting "greatest hits" or "remastered" collections

Everyone's a winner.

Except the record companies, who don't exist anymore.


Also, on the band's myspace, they go:-

Hey, I'm playing a live concert in YourTown. Get tickets here...

And you go. Because it's cheaper than getting tickets from a toutconcert promoter


What do you think? Too radical?

I like the idea, even tho' I'm not that keen on myspace in particular.

But a system like you describe would be a thing of beauty.
Anyone who's in it for money rather than to get their art to the masses would probably not like it, tho'.

As for people not having to internet...well, the world is increasingly coming to a point where the internet is available almost everywhere where poverty, censorship or wars doesn't reign supreme.

Maybe one's money could be better spent if one lived in a part of the world without internet access (like a ticket to get oneself out of there, fast).

[bigboab]

Your favourite singers, bands, whoever, will have their own myspace.

When they've finished writing/recording a song, they go "Hey, listen to my new song, 99p for a download". They can do this as frequently or as infrequently as they choose.

The fans go OK. Click. listen. copy it to their ipods and into their playlists, or they go, no that's shit, try again.

money goes straight to the artist, songs go straight to the audience. Knowledge of the bands is spread through fangroups and friends on myspace. Fans create artwork, publish their playlists, etc. Other fans go, "hey, that's nice, I'll download that", etc.

All back-catalogues will be available for all time always. 99p a song.

No repackaged fan-exploiting "greatest hits" or "remastered" collections

Everyone's a winner.

Except the record companies, who don't exist anymore.


Also, on the band's myspace, they go:-

Hey, I'm playing a live concert in YourTown. Get tickets here...

And you go. Because it's cheaper than getting tickets from a toutconcert promoter


What do you think? Too radical?

I forgot to add that it is already happening. I believe the UK recently had its first number one based on internet sales. A lot of music sites in America have 'snippets' that you can hear of the music they are selling. You can puchase the single track cheap. Once big business gets a hold on it, the price will rise and we people will go back to filesharing.

[4play]

Not very fair on the public who do not have access to the internet.

lets face it if your too poor to afford the internet you probably cant afford £10 a cd either.

I can see alot more acts coming through like this. At some point the record industry will have to die and new legislation will have to be bought in to compensate artists fairly while allowing for internet sharing.

so many people do it these days that its now pretty much impossible to continue any system where it is illegal. The goverment should step forward and say copyright infringement laws where $750 per song are to be used from people who profit from piracy like the law was intended not for filesharers. I bet they would soon sort out a new working business model.

[bigboab]

Not very fair on the public who do not have access to the internet.

lets face it if your too poor to afford the internet you probably cant afford £10 a cd either.

Internet is approximately £250 a year.
Cost of computer, say another £250 a year, allowing for replacement, electricity, Phone rental( A lot of pensioners have moved to Pay As You Go) and various other sundries.(recordable DVD's and CD's etc)

I can think of a lot of people who cant afford that outlay every year. They still buy CD's and DVD's however. There a lot of old Grannies out there that buy CD's.(Daniel O'Donnel fans) A lot of old Grandads too.

Remember that only yesterday it was revealed in the UK that pensioners are now the biggest age group. On state pension you would be asking them to lay out a lot of their income.

[mr. nails]

not gonna work for music. 1 person dl's the song then p2p cumz into effect.

[4play]

not gonna work for music. 1 person dl's the song then p2p cumz into effect.

not really true.
lots of people will still carry on downloading from the artists website. Itunes charges what 99p per song but people still buy songs even though its normally available from p2p networks much earlier at higher quality.

without the record companies the artist is making much more money per download so they dont have to sell as many anyway.

[Confluence]

Is this idea cutting CD's and Vinyl entirely out of music here?
It's an alright idea, but if it did happen I personally would still prefer to have a record or CD in my hand. Even if I hardly played it, but played the ripped tracks through the computer, it's nice to know you have an original somewhere...