Artists Share.com

[DudeAsInCool]

Someone fowarded this to me - I cant vouge for the site, but if I was a musican looking for backing, I probably would check it out:

Subject: musicians, investors, & music lovers

www.artistshare.com

I think this is one of the most positive solutions I've seen in a good long while, and hope y'all get good use of it. pass it along if you agree!

the link is for ...

- musicians who need venture capital minus the industry sharks to cut a c.d. independantly without mortgaging the house or selling their soul to a record label. Their work stands on it's own merit via public response on the internet.

- those interested in sponsoring new music through a reworked patron type investment system. Is this Buddhist "right livelihood" approved? I haven't seen the structure for payouts, however. I don't know if this is most likely to be a charitible investment, or a geniune way to make money by producing music independantly? I guess I have to look closer.

- anyone who wants free d/l of new tunes, sanctioned by the artists. They use the free d/l's as a form of low cost advertisement, so no worries over legal/ethical issues like napster or morpheus.

this particular business approach seems to be saying that the real income, for example "madonna", is not the cd sales, but the market weight of "madonna" as if a trademark. the reasoning appears to follow this path:

heavy d/l's= low cost/low risk self promotion= name recognition= a following= income from musical endeavors.

- student musicians looking to see how to take the next step of self promotion in the marketplace. I believe it is only available to investors, but this site includes highlights of artists in the creative process, progress reports, technical phases. Sort of like the musicians version of 'inside the actors studio'. Self taught musicians might do well to invest in an artist if nothing else but to gain practical education in the field.