Perhaps this kind of thinking is a byproduct of being undependent?
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Yet Radiohead are singularly about to demonstrate the true paradigm shift taking place in the music industry, and it has little to do with technology: that the artist is, and always has been, the most powerful player in the business.
Simply put, only the artist has a direct relationship with their fans! Everyone else is simply along for the ride.
Of course, for a long time the cost of recording, manufacturing and distribution was prohibitively expensive; marketing remains so. While digital technologies have changed that paradigm what is becoming clearer is that the relationship between the artist and fan is a quantifiable, valuable asset.
Something that Despair, RoosterTeeth, and Undependents could have told ‘em.
Also: Radiohead are plural?
“Rather than renewing her contract with her longtime record label Warner Bros., the Material Girl is signing a 10-year, $120-million deal with a concert-promotion company,” the WSJ Biz Blog reports.
All these music industry moves comes at the expense of the former financial and physical infrastructure intermediaries between Artist and Audience.
Labels provide either (usually both) start-up capital and the physical distribution network for musicians. Both those come at an extremely high price, naturally.
But when the internet enables digital and physical distribution, and musical publishing tools can be bought off the shelf for lawn-mowing money, labels lose their monopoly on access to Audience.
posted on October 12th, 2007 in Music, Radiohead, The Machine, Undies
Nine Inch Nails declares undependence
From their own website: (no permalink)
Undependent™ tracks the emerging class of self-sustaining Internet-based artists. By artist we don’t mean artiste. We mean those content creators whose self-expression originates in and emanates from the Internet itself. The compelling ones attract audiences and in so doing are capable of creating completely self-sustaining businesses with total artistic control. (Read more here)
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