Producer/Artist Question: Where do you buy music?

topic posted Fri, February 29, 2008 - 9:09 AM by  offlinejoel
As I'm finishing up my projects I'm looking more and more into the marketing aspect and it occurs to me-the whole industry as a network is screwed-but I'm curious-obviously where we all buy also answer the question where we all should sell? Aside from Itunes-where do people here BUY music they enjoy?
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joel
SF Bay Area
  • emusic
    • I've had good experiences at www.fuzz.com and www.projectopus.com. Both are free to sign up with and you can set your tracks for free or paid DL. ProjectOpus is a lot more thorough in ensuring that the work is your own and there is about a 24 hour wait period for the track to be available. Fuzz does not do this, but it is a larger community and has some big name artists on it like Bright Eyes and Rivers Cuomo (Weezer). Both are community based and act like an artist driven label (I think they both have plans to really make themselves a label, but not sure on that (read the agreement - you do maintain the rights to the work in both cases). There are many sites like this out there. I like to put my tracks up in as many places as possible.
      • beatport... use it.

        And use the "my beatport" function too... it really ends up helping the artists you like ;)
        • if you're looking for a "Community" where you can buy music online, check out Soundclick...

          www.soundclick.com

          here's a link to my soundclick page as an example, although I'm giving my tracks out there for free, as opposed to the tracks I have for sale on Beatport.... I find that Soundclick does not get overwhelmed so I don't mind giving stuff out there for free as promos, or just for feedback.


          www.soundclick.com/janvanlier
          • Look, I'll just throw this out there. I really don't "buy" songs from the internet just for the purpose of a DJ set. If you are a dancefloor DJ I totally understand why you would want to. But really, the world is full of royalty free loops for free download and you can put together some really cool and original stuff together that way. I religeously go to www.acidplanet.com to download their free 8 packs and on the odd occasion will buy one of their loop libraries. From there I will chop up and treat to my own personal satisfaction and even add bass lines, drum beats and whatnot. Still, I understand the need to get the girlies out there body rockin' to something they already are familiar with so, more power to you.

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