Didn't radio head make million posting their newest CD online free of charge with a donation button? If you're up front about issues and give away something like this for free, most people will gladly click a button and give you a donation directly.
It also cuts out labels who most likely add 80% of the costs of doing business in the music industry.
I was lucky enough to get tickets to her "secret show" in Cambridge a few months ago, via Twitter. It ended up being in a recording studio in Davis Square, The Bridge. A few hundred people, a very entertaining opening band, and one of the most intimate, fun shows I've been at, maybe ever. Amanda, her keyboard, a ukulele, and a box of questions, for $20 on a Sunday evening, set up all via Twitter. Amazing show. She makes fans feel like friends, and you can't help but want to see her succeed.
Of course, everything she does is awesome, which seems to help.
Lots of young enterprising women, usually in the San Fernando Valley, have made money asking for money on the internet. Usually they need a webcam, stage name, and a distinct lack of modesty or inhibition to really make the bank.
Is this really new? Plenty of bands have been doing this for some time. With the Internet's destruction of their revenue stream, it was inevitable. Think of it this way: what the Internet taketh away, it can also giveth . . . but only if YOU giveth. As for Palmer, I think I liked her best when she was playing a statue in Harvard Square. She had a cup out front too, then, as I recall.
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She lives on my street..
I wonder if she'll be out asking passers-by for change next. I'll avoid walking by her house, I guess... Seriously though, I do like her approach..
Same here. Didn't radio head
Same here.
Didn't radio head make million posting their newest CD online free of charge with a donation button? If you're up front about issues and give away something like this for free, most people will gladly click a button and give you a donation directly.
It also cuts out labels who most likely add 80% of the costs of doing business in the music industry.
Cha ching
Good for her. She is an artist and deserves to be paid for her art by consumers who wish to buy it. The RIAA can DIAF with an UIFA.
She is/was also the Eight-Foot Bride, so read this and send her a donation:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/13651346/The-EightFoot-Bride-an-original-screenplay
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Sorry, UFIA.
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Secret Twitter Show
I was lucky enough to get tickets to her "secret show" in Cambridge a few months ago, via Twitter. It ended up being in a recording studio in Davis Square, The Bridge. A few hundred people, a very entertaining opening band, and one of the most intimate, fun shows I've been at, maybe ever. Amanda, her keyboard, a ukulele, and a box of questions, for $20 on a Sunday evening, set up all via Twitter. Amazing show. She makes fans feel like friends, and you can't help but want to see her succeed.
Of course, everything she does is awesome, which seems to help.
Lots of young enterprising
Lots of young enterprising women, usually in the San Fernando Valley, have made money asking for money on the internet. Usually they need a webcam, stage name, and a distinct lack of modesty or inhibition to really make the bank.
Same kind of whoring, just a different process.
Is this really new? Plenty
Is this really new? Plenty of bands have been doing this for some time. With the Internet's destruction of their revenue stream, it was inevitable. Think of it this way: what the Internet taketh away, it can also giveth . . . but only if YOU giveth. As for Palmer, I think I liked her best when she was playing a statue in Harvard Square. She had a cup out front too, then, as I recall.