Comments on: More Creative Musicians Working the Web

By: Molly

Molly — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:56:54 +0000

I like the NPR humor. I do. I do. But a grass roots approach to make a $75,000 album? I don’t understand.

The good news is that $75,000 worth of people will get paid to help her make the record. That’s great news.

And I’ll admit, I have no clue how much it costs to do a record. In my little world, $10,000 to pay for a producer seems outlandish.

Still, why use a grass roots method to raise what seems like a commercially-colossal cost?

By: david

david — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 21:26:47 +0000

Beyond the stunning financial success of the campaign, it also means that Sobule’s going to have an incredibly motivated street team when the album comes out.

That is, those contributors will probably e-mail every person in their address books, urging them to buy the new disc, see her in concert, etc. So she’s getting a benefit far beyond the actual cash windfall…

By: Avi

Avi — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 20:18:19 +0000

Momus actually did something awfully similar back in 1999 with his “Patronage Pop” concept album “Stars Forever”. Amazingly, the price of having a song written just for you doesn’t seem to have gone up in value since then.

By: MattFriedrichs

MattFriedrichs — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 20:04:43 +0000

Kevin Kelly has a blog entry (http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/03/1000_true_fans.php) suggesting that artists might be able to tap into “1,000 true fans” in this manner to make a living.