Muffin Bottoms [not] Just another WordPress weblog

12/04/2011

An artist speaks no matter how shaky his or her voice gets.

Lives in the Balance (Literally)

Please do not pay anyone besides Jackson Browne, Richie Havens or me for your ability to get this song.

http://abmp3.com/download/6337274-mp3.html

This is the only place left I’ve found that it’s still free of charge from me.

The internet is beginning to frustrate me. The only two songs I’m selling ANYWHERE currently are my “Chiapaneca” and my “Frybread” as a CD single for 5bucks or less. I’ve seen it for sale for 9 dollars, and I’ve stumbled upon the single downloads for as high as 2 dollars.

I get 64 cents from iTunes and amazon, 70 from CDBaby, 99cents at Digstation.com, a whopping three cents from rhapsody and only a penny from napster. Spotify, who I had so many hopes and aspirations for gives me absolutely nothing two fiscal quarters in row which angers  me greatly.

Also something you should know. Apple WAS giving me 70cents per download until Amazon came in at 64 cents as a win-win for EVERYONE BUT the artist. Why? Because Apple responded by going from 70 down to 64. (I would love to start a class law suit for half the difference at 3 cents and nail the both of them some day, but that’s for another discussion ok?)

Listen, I’m not going to make any real money as an award winning independent songwriter and producer, but I’ll be damned if I’m going to let someone else make real money off of your ability to get free music from me.

Thank you, and have a nice day.

Marco Capelli Frucht

http://www.frucht.org

http://www.oilpanalley.com

http://www.tinyurl.com/reverbmarco

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