Thanks to everyone who has responded. The LAU list rocks! After doing some investigation today, it looks like my approach will be: 1) Sign with someone like Magnatune to handle the commercial side, official releases and promotion. Now there's an agency that seems to understand both artists' and listeners' needs; they promote and distribute, you retain the rights to the music (so you can still give stuff away), you can make a little money, and your audience *owns* what they've bought...as it should be. 2) Create a dedicated web-site, to host lots of free extras - demos of new stuff, things that don't make it on the official releases, remixes, re-recordings, live recordings. BTW: I found an interesting article by Courtney Love on the subject - it's quite old, a bit political, but a good read: http://archive.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/06/14/love/index.html We live in exciting times. - shanerich _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
