December 2010
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UK teen buys $750,000 of his own music from iTunes... →
A UK teen named Lamar Johnson has recently plead guilty to one count of conspiracy to defraud. His crime? It seems that he and his band (both in a musical sense and in a “Robin Hood” sense) used stolen credit cards to purchase something like $750,000 worth of their own music from both Amazon and the iTunes Store between January 2008 and June 2009.
Is this what selling records has...
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“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks...”
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— Thomas Edison
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“Necessity, who is the mother of invention.”
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— Plato
The death of indie music is not a myth! →
Indie is dead. Long live indie.
This is how Patrick Derocher news editor for theramonline.com starts off his article to discuss not the collapse but the rise of indie music. In his long winded article he explains that indie artists have come a long way with the world wide web, from selling out concerts, to topping the charts.
Could this be true? Is indie the new mainstream? If so, in my...
“Men of principles are always bold, but those who are bold are not always men of...”
– Confucius