Re: [microsound] death of internet radio......fight back!! now

[Tad Turner <tad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 6/21/02 at 1:20 PM, pelagius pelagius <pela_gius@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> "mainstream" more than anybody else.  As far as I understand
> it, stations that play mostly independent music and music from
> outside of the US won't have to worry about paying royalties
> anyway.

It'll be interesting to see what happens here, because it could be a
source of income for "independent" musicians and composers, no different
than CD sales or downloads on MP3.com...

This is what I find to be a bit illusory about "alternative" or
"independent" phenomenon: they don't really participate in an
alternative economy. An artist's dilemma is to either go with the ways
big business has established to make money, or put up with giving things
away free, or trying to construct some moral postion around it.

(Before anyone gets too hot, I should say that this is systematic.
Capitalism incorporates economic alternatives as "minor features." If it
were possible to grow truly alternative economies, Capitalism would've
been done in long ago. Anyway, it's not something under the control of
artists and other alternative types.)

-Tad