free music

Lately I've been checking out garageband.com, a site where artists can upload their music and people can rate it on a scale of 1 to 5 stars. Perlcast is where I first heard about this site, and the great thing is that it's legit, since the artists themselves are the ones submitting music. Today I was listening to APM's Future Tense, and the story was about Jane Siberry, a reputable Canadian musician, who is distributing her music for free online. More precisely, she allows the fan to choose the price. So anyone can freely download her music, but she also gives the option to actually pay for a song to support her. She says that sometimes people give more than the suggested amount, and that the business model has been good so far. Kudos to her! Also, I thought she said an interesting quote about this development for music: "Maybe we're heading toward where we came from, which was, we never used to have physical medium ".

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