I’ve had someone in facebook asked me, would I ever get my music on Itunes? Make music available to buy through the Itunes store? I’ve thoughts about it for a long time but ya know, getting music on Itunes is kind of tricky. You need to make sure you own all copyrights to your music. Gotta get your music copyrighted before you sell. Also gotta follow the strict guidelines of getting your music on Itunes like making your album cover however they want it and copyrighting your album art too. Plus, you gotta find a distribution which will cost something a year so I don’t know. Seems like a lot of work and a lot of money to sell your music online like that so I don’t know if I’ll ever do it.
On top of that, I prefer to give out my music for free anyway. It’s called an “internet album” for a reason. I’ll just throw my album on bandcamp and let people download it for free or I could find a different album downloading site similar to bandcamp to give away my album. I’m sure there are many other websites similar to bandcamp. Bandcamp is easier and cheaper ’cause you don’t need a distribution.
I don’t believe in selling music ’cause I don’t make music for the money anyways. I’ll find a way to put my first real album for free online whether it’ll be bandcamp or some other site, I’ll think of something. I’ll definitely get my album copyrighted, though ’cause it’s a good idea. I really don’t want to pay for a distributor ’cause it’s a load of bull.
A lot of unsigned bands & artists have been releasing their albums for free online anyways and I’m glad more have been doing it. I wanna do the same.
You don’t need to sell your music and each time I bring that up, musicians get all upset and offended for whatever reason. It just further proves that all bands care about is money. Whatever happened to the love of music? Music doesn’t always have to revolve around money. It’s all about the passion and the love for music. You show your passion for music by not being greedy about money.
Kev