Comments on: Fans as music-sellers on MySpace http://www.onlinefandom.com/archives/fans-as-music-sellers-on-myspace/ news & perspectives on fan communication and online social life Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:03:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Neil http://www.onlinefandom.com/archives/fans-as-music-sellers-on-myspace/comment-page-1/#comment-32 Neil Mon, 11 Sep 2006 21:16:21 +0000 http://www.onlinefandom.com/archives/fans-as-music-sellers-on-myspace/#comment-32 I find this utterly despicable. The notion of turning a bunch of enthusiastic kids into little mini-marketeres, it's just rotten. I do also love to try and get people into music that I like, but I do so because I want to them to experience the same enjoyment that I have had. Bringing money into things cheapens things...and yes, if the fans *aren't* making a cut then it's still bad as they're lining Murdoch's pockets. And they won't mind that they're not making money for flogging stuff...I suspect this will hinge on the idea that fans will want to be seen supporting the objects of their fandom, and MySpace lessens the gap between the two sides. In other words, I'm sure some fans will be thinking it's a way of getting noticed by the musicians. A few months back, there was a thread on ninjatune.net about Coldcut...they had a new record out, and were seeking to promote it. The thread has now been removed - I'll see if I can find it on Google's cache though - but it was an appeal to people to join a Coldcut "street team". This would then involve them signing up for forums, and generally trying to generate positive word-of-mouth about the new record. In exchange, they would be given badges and other bits and pieces. This went horribly wrong, and the ninjatune forumers completely ripped the piss out of the idea, which is presumably why the thread was pulled. I had a look into this at the time, and found there were actually whole sites dedicated to this kind of nonsense...i-teams they were called on one place. Actually, here's the post which started that Coldcut thread! ----- Re: Coldcut Street Team Ninja [15.12.05, 13:48:37] To be envolved with the e-team you will be required to talk about Coldcut on forums, get friends to sign up to the mailing list, create a buzz on myspace and general web releated tasks. ----- And a link to leave you with (can I use url here? Well, sorry if this stretches the page anyway): http://london-underground.blogspot.com/2006_01_01_london-underground_archive.html#113806917770639049 I find this utterly despicable. The notion of turning a bunch of enthusiastic kids into little mini-marketeres, it’s just rotten. I do also love to try and get people into music that I like, but I do so because I want to them to experience the same enjoyment that I have had. Bringing money into things cheapens things…and yes, if the fans *aren’t* making a cut then it’s still bad as they’re lining Murdoch’s pockets. And they won’t mind that they’re not making money for flogging stuff…I suspect this will hinge on the idea that fans will want to be seen supporting the objects of their fandom, and MySpace lessens the gap between the two sides. In other words, I’m sure some fans will be thinking it’s a way of getting noticed by the musicians.

A few months back, there was a thread on ninjatune.net about Coldcut…they had a new record out, and were seeking to promote it. The thread has now been removed – I’ll see if I can find it on Google’s cache though – but it was an appeal to people to join a Coldcut “street team”. This would then involve them signing up for forums, and generally trying to generate positive word-of-mouth about the new record. In exchange, they would be given badges and other bits and pieces. This went horribly wrong, and the ninjatune forumers completely ripped the piss out of the idea, which is presumably why the thread was pulled.

I had a look into this at the time, and found there were actually whole sites dedicated to this kind of nonsense…i-teams they were called on one place.

Actually, here’s the post which started that Coldcut thread!

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Re: Coldcut Street Team

Ninja [15.12.05, 13:48:37]

To be envolved with the e-team you will be required to talk about Coldcut on forums, get friends to sign up to the mailing list, create a buzz on myspace and general web releated tasks.
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And a link to leave you with (can I use url here? Well, sorry if this stretches the page anyway):

http://london-underground.blogspot.com/2006_01_01_london-underground_archive.html#113806917770639049

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