After months of having a tantalizing-looking ‘Music’ link in this site’s main navigation but no payoff after the click, I’m happy to tell the world that the music section is live. There isn’t too much up now, aside from some free MP3s and an archive of music news, but there will be more content when I have more time. I would like to include some info about the lovely Why?-Fi Studio and how I record a song, but those will require a lot of work. I also plan to have an ‘upcoming albums’ section, but that might be unrealistic, as I would feel obligated to give all the projects I’m working on actual deadlines, then would feel the need to meet those deadlines. You see my dilemma.
Someday I’ll have an online store. The plan includes physical copies of CDs as well as digital downloads, initially in mp3 but probably in FLAC eventually. What’s going to be neat is that the digital downloads will feature a ‘Pay What You Like’ option (yeah, yeah, “Simpsons Radiohead did it”), which will go all the way down to free if that’s what people want to pay. I’m having a little trouble with the logistics of the whole project because I would like to include cover songs (I’ve recorded a lot of cover songs, my Christmas albums are almost all covers, and even The Suckers recorded a full-album cover of the Ramones’ first record), but I have to deal with the nasty reality of licensing, which looks to be as much negative fun as making the songs in the first place was. So the covers are going to have a minimum price so I don’t wind up losing money on the venture.
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