Original Music and the Internet - Free for the Taking - Page 2

But, as I mentioned, the crucial difference between these unpublished postings and commercially available music is the cost. If the 75 cents is too much for your budget, look some more and you'll find something similar for no cash at all. And it's not my intent to shill for myself or my friends and acquaintances, or the posting sites we frequent, but some of the places I've found of some interest would be: SoundClick, iMusicScene, and SongPlanet, all of which might be places that you yourself could start looking into if you're interested.

Anyway, this ripple in the recording industry ocean may one day become a curl so big you could surf on it on a board made up of old vinyl copies of your Aerosmith albums (long since replaced on CD, of course). It kind of reminds me of when multitrack digital home recordiing studios first became popular - no one knew that only a few years down the road, bands would be recording their albums in their basement or rehearsal spaces, putting many professional recording studios out of business. Perhaps these tracks, mostly made for the love of music (since there's no point making them for the love of money) will never amount to anything in the big picture - or maybe they will: in the great sea of possibility (thanks, Patti!) that is rock and roll, anything can happen.

Article Author: JC Mosquito

JC Mosquito spends most of his day keeping the wolves from the door. When he's not occupied with this pasttime, he's interested in all things rock and roll, which may or may not have died back in the late '50's, the late '70's, or the early '90's …

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