Comments on: Hey Trent — a music tax is a dumb idea

By: anon

anon — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 16:41:17 +0000

go back to city states, skip the middle men and deal direct…public to artist! i'd love to be selling my own cd's to my own fans at a huge gig and let the file sharing be a free way to promote shows, ep and labum launches ect. As a musician this model would suit me just fine, and with the internet being these days more popular than tv's, it is going to become increasingly easier to market your own music. This is what i would like to see, an increase in the music industry of creativity, especially big sellers, and a focus on the actual creation of the work of art and that includes cover, whether or not its vinyl or cd, merch, things like that. There needs to be a higher bar set in terms of musicianship, well especially in Australia…any large band out of there in a while has been very average…

By: John Barry

John Barry — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 16:26:21 +0000

trent should go and play music rather than sitting around trying to make money and his music might improve so he will create a larger audience!?

By: anon

anon — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 12:41:17 +0000

By: John Barry

John Barry — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 12:26:21 +0000

trent should go and play music rather than sitting around trying to make money and his music might improve so he will create a larger audience!?

By: CNET on music: Right advice, wrong lessons - - mathewingram.com/work

CNET on music: Right advice, wrong lessons - - mathewingram.com/work — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:53:29 +0000

[...] Greg Sandoval over at CNET has a piece up about Radiohead and Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails, and their experiments with “pay what you want” record releases. Greg is the guy who wrote the recent story in which Trent said he wasn’t that impressed by the response to his album (Reznor also mentioned the idea of an Internet tax to compensate artists for downloading, which I said was a dumb idea). [...]