Technology can change things. And in the case of the music industry, it destroyed it.
Ouch.
Well, that’s the opinion of an anti-record company type called Tunecore anyway. But the reality is- I agree with ’em. The Music industry -the big cars, fat cigars, drugged out stars, music industry- is on it’s last legs. Or leg.
Here is a brief PDF download called “The Music Industry Survival Manual”. It’s to a large degree a sales tool for this Tunecore company as well as a lot of different companies it mentions in the download but it has some good pointers if you are trying to promote your own band/music. Some of the things it mentions I plan to do and some of the resources it provides I plan to explore when my band’s record (obsolete term I know…tough) is finally finished.
With this company Tunecore I must say, it does work. It gets your stuff in/on itunes (and rhapsody and emusic and blah blah) and for what it costs (29.00 a year per record) it’s a good deal. I used it for my old band dryve and a record we did called ‘Thrifty Mr. Kickstar’ and it paid for itself in a pretty stupidly quick amount of time.
But even if you don’t use them, like I said, they have a few good points in dealing with the new music paradigm that we all must face as it is only a matter of time before the CD becomes extinct.