Re: NCR - A great way for bands to give fans incentives to buy instead of download music
From: "Tara" <tknapp@TUCKER-USA.COM>
To: <CREED-DISCUSS@WINDUPLIST.COM>
Date: Sat
16 Jun 2001 16:50:25 -0400
NCR - A great way for bands to give fans incentives to buy instead of download music
Another thought on the stealing vs. sharing issue... a radio station played the Metallica S&M album in it's entirety... a guy recorded it from the radio station, and burned it to CD... and his comment on the Napster issue was something like "Are they going to sue the radio stations and make them stop playing their singles next?"  (My thoughts on the issue are a bit complicated, so I won't post them here... but that's something to think about).
 
Tara
 
----- Original Message -----
From: Debbi R
To: CREED-DISCUSS@WINDUPLIST.COM
Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2001 3:29 PM
Subject: NCR - A great way for bands to give fans incentives to buy instead of download music

So I've been thinking about how some bands are totally against music trading and napster-type song sharing.  I found a great way for bands encourage fans to buy instead of steal.

I recently bought The Alarm boxed set.  The Alarm <http://www.thealarm.com> has been a favorite band of mine for a long time.  The set comes with a bonus CD that includes a dedication and song that's chosen by the person buying the set.   Hell, the idea that a song is being sung and dedicated to me is worth me shelling out money for the music.  It's recorded during sound checks, so it almost helps them kill 2 birds with one stone.  They get their sound checks done and help themselves make a bit of extra money in the process.  I guess if you are at the show when you buy the boxed set, they'll do a live dedication rather than the one at sound check which sounds REALLY cool to me.

If anyone's interested in hearing the dedication and a clip of the song, it's on:

<http://www.geocities.com/dramacci/dedication.htm>


DebbiR
--who realizes that "steal" is a loaded word but let's face it, that's what it is.