“Guess we’ve still got a ways to go before people figure shit out”
Just had a band recommended to me by a friend. Went to Hype Machine to check them out, but no luck—all tracks unplayable. Found some on YouTube, but I can’t let the whole page of search results play consecutively like on HM. Guess that means I’m going to have to find and pirate their whole goddamn discography and not feel bad about it because they backed me into this corner.
Guess we’ve still got a ways to go before people figure shit out.
I run into these kinds of headaches just about every day in my quest to bring great music to the masses.
Probably the most disheartening thing is finding artists who put up 30 second “clips” of their songs. Oh, what a great idea! Because (of course) 30 seconds of some song is going to make me fall under a band’s trance and go out and purchase the rest of their music. I might even by a t-shirt because those 30 gilded seconds of music listening really shook my foundation, and now I’m in the mood to really make a statement on your behalf.
Yeah. Riiiiiight.
So artists… if you’re listening… give us fans at least ONE FULL SONG in the MP3 FORMAT for us to DOWNLOAD FOR FREE. That way we can listen to your music when we’re not tethered to our computer (iPods anyone?). And maybe we’ll even share your music with persons who might really and truly fall under your trance.
And trust me, if we like what we hear, some of us will go to great lengths and and do just about whatever you want in order to hear and experience more.
