Huh, I would love to see that lecture by Fry. I will have to go seek it out, because it sounds fascinating. It is totally true--if you get me excited about your work, AND if you give me a lot of your work for free, I will pretty much do all I can to pay money for as much of your work as I can. If I really like your work, and I don't get a bunch of it for free, I tend to assume that other buyers are making up the difference and I don't have to care as much.
Ooooh, your class sounds fascinating. A lot of my thoughts about the values of record companies actually shifted a bit while I was watching LotMS--I had no idea that one of the functions of a record label was to sit down a band and teach them to be better at their craft. (HOWARD BENSON FTW). Maybe losing this functionality would be sad for the industry, but maybe it would promote more artists who already perfected the craft part of their work before they got signed.
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Ooooh, your class sounds fascinating. A lot of my thoughts about the values of record companies actually shifted a bit while I was watching LotMS--I had no idea that one of the functions of a record label was to sit down a band and teach them to be better at their craft. (HOWARD BENSON FTW). Maybe losing this functionality would be sad for the industry, but maybe it would promote more artists who already perfected the craft part of their work before they got signed.