An absolutely impressive talk by Amanda Palmer. She believes we shouldn’t make people pay for music, but letting them pay. In this passionate TED talk that begins in her days as a street performer (drop a dollar in the hat for the Eight-Foot Bride!), she examines the new relationship between artist and fan. Amanda Palmer believes we shouldn’t fight the fact that digital content is freely shareable — and suggests that artists can and should be directly supported by fans.
Absolutely beautiful!
Mar 4th, 2013 / 12:57 pm
I love Amanda Palmer. She’s just amazing.
Mar 4th, 2013 / 10:50 pm
From an interview with Thom Yorke on the In Rainbows “pay what you like” experiment:
“Having thought they were subverting the corporate music industry with In Rainbows, he now fears they were inadvertently playing into the hands of Apple and Google and the rest. “They have to keep commodifying things to keep the share price up, but in doing so they have made all content, including music and newspapers, worthless, in order to make their billions. And this is what we want? I still think it will be undermined in some way. It doesn’t make sense to me. Anyway, All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace. The commodification of human relationships through social networks. Amazing!”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2013/feb/23/thom-yorke-radiohead-interview
Mar 5th, 2013 / 11:57 am