Comments on: Trent Reznor Wants To Tax Your Internet Connection

By: synthhead

synthhead — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 04:42:32 +0000

I downloaded to check it out and it just didn’t hit it with me.

To my way of thinking, though, getting over 100,000 downloads of the album is pretty amazing considering it’s somebody that nobody has ever heard of.

By: Todd Fletcher

Todd Fletcher — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 02:29:55 +0000

It can’t be lost on Trent that Radiohead did pretty well with their recent experiment.

Maybe the NiggyTardust album was bad? (I don’t know since I didn’t hear it and wouldn’t have liked it anyway). Seems like he’s in the same mindset as the rest of the music industry - if our product is tanking it’s because you’re some kind of idiot, or a thief. Couldn’t be the product is lame, no way.

By: amoeba

amoeba — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 20:28:44 +0000

as a follow-up example, bourbonese qualk put their entire catalog online for free a while back. i was ecstatic, since their stuff was very hard to find anyway. i DL’d all of it, and got hold of them to see what i could do in return. they asked for a donation to Médecins Sans Frontières rather than any payment to them. a few minutes later, MSF had $50 from me.

i know how hard being a musician can be, and i try my best to compensate the artist in the manner they see fit. with teh nets, distribution and compensation can now be immediate and direct. lots of creative things are yet to happen in regards to that.

some of these early experiments (radiohead, saul & trent, prince, etc) may be view with varying degrees of success (or failure) but it is a step in the right direction. the only thing i see the industry dinosaurs as being able to provide anymore is promotion, and i even see that going back to a grassroots, word-of-mouth thing, which is the way it should be anyway.

By: amoeba

amoeba — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 20:15:39 +0000

i wish there had been some sort of feedback on the NT download site. i would have said “gonna DL this, and if i like it i’ll come back and buy it”. but, since i didn’t like it i removed it from my machine. and obviously didn’t pay.

in general, when i come across something i like (for free), i go out of my way to pay for it. hopefully, the artists and producers actually see the payment, which you usually never know.

as far as trent’s idea of taxing me… well like i say, he woulda got my money if i liked it. i’m bombarded by shitty music all day, i sure don’t wanna pay a tax on that!