Selling songs for soup
Posted by admin on November 27th, 2008With more artists realising the tactic of waiting for a major label to notice them is as futile as a Johnny Borrell lyric, the rise of digital music solutions continues to flourish. Some examples stand out more than others, thanks to their innovation.
Belfast band Escape Act have used a free site called Bandcamp to debut their album Loosely Based On Fiction track-by-track through Irish music blogs, a strategy which has got them noticed. Bandcamp.mu enables bands and artists to upload their music and start selling it online in a huge variety of digital formats. The band can set the price (if at all), or “do a Radiohead” and allow the fan to pay what they want. The service was recently used by Super Extra Bonus Party to release their digital-only remix album for free.
Indiecater.com, a site run by Irish music blogger MP3hugger has also taken advantage of digital distribution by releasing old out-of-print albums by Red Star Belgrade and Sunbear alongside new music compilations for under a fiver. None of the above can match Max Tundra in the innovation stakes however. The electro-popster is selling cans of branded Kosher Chicken Soup which come with a code to download his latest album. After all, music is food for the soul right?