Am Thursday, dem 14. Feb 2008 schrieb Alex Hudson:
It still comes back to the basic issue with earning a living from this kind of art.
Most artists cannot make a living from their record cotract alone at all.
There are plenty of people willing to pay money for it, but there are up-front costs which need to be covered, thus you need investment. If self-publishing and gathering income that way were so easy, bands would be doing that instead of getting record contracts (and a good proportion of them actually do; not many make a living from it though).
Are you trying to tell us, that nobody would make music, because the costs are too high??? I beg to differ!
I haven't seen [m]any examples of where that was done before the artist was sufficiently well-known to be able to do it.
Have a look at Jamendo: http://www.jamendo.com/ Most artists there don't have a record contract. Because only few independent labels allow publishing with Creative Commons.
Paying through Jamendo is possible, but that's not as easy as it should be (Paypal).