The Music Of JC Harris

“positively the most intelligent progressive rock on this here planet”

Archival Rants

Social Networks?

04.25.2009

Marketing, Music Business

OK, so I recently broke down and got a Twitter account (see: The Twitter Thing). What’s next? Spreading out! Facebook. MySpace. iLike. etc. etc. etc. Yes, I am currently working on pushing my manifold activities onto all these platforms. (OK, some of you already know I technically do have accounts on all these places, but they are all about as lively as a <insert Dan Rather style metaphor here>.  In short, they don’t do anything for me.) I talk about my objections to all this sort of thing over at the main site under FAQs. But I’ve decided that hitting [...]

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    An Interesting Post On Copyright

    03.4.2009

    Copyright, Music Business, Piracy

    This is Joe Clark, a writer in Toronto, working on a very interesting book on copyright reform. It refutes a lot of the extreme points of view on both sides of the ‘great divide’.

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      Will Anyone Under Forty Pay For Music?

      12.8.2008

      Music Business, Piracy

      The thing I am learning, much to my cost, is that this business we call ‘show’ is flipped on it’s head. See it used to be that one toured in order to sell content. More and more now one basically gives the content away in order to get people to either: a) Go to shows b) Purchase swag c) Promote a corporate tie-in This is a bargain with the devil for any number of reasons, which I’ll delve into another time, but for now the question is ‘how did we get here?’. And the answer is simple: we got pimped. [...]

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