Tuesday, 9 June 2009

Free is the new expensive


Okay. That's it.

If you didn't already know, I should tell you that I also fancy myself as a bit of an artist. Over the weekend, we opened up the art studios to the general public, sent out 1000s of invites, even invited our grannies and cousins, and guess what? We hardly sold a thing. Maybe it's the current climate? It was raining.

Anyway, after discovering at the last RTYD gig that 14 Carat Grapefruit give their CDs away for free, I have been thinking alot about music, and now even art, being free.

I've got a workspace full of art I need to get rid of so I've got room to make some more art that won't sell, and a few MBs of music just sitting here on this dusty old portable drive beneath my feet. It's a shame really.

So, that's it.

I've made a bunch of Pocket Rocket's songs available for free download to members only, for a limited time (the limited time is merely a get-out clause, in case I change my mind again, by the way) on the Rock-Til-You-Drop-Records site.

If I could get a few other bands to contribute free downloads, maybe we'll get more traffic to the site and people will get to hear some of this great music that's sitting silently in the great iTunes library in the 'Net.

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