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Originally Posted by Jason Dunn
Really good interview - I've added the book to my Amazon wish list. I'm not sure that I fully buy into the idea that artists don't need record labels any more - I think they do, at least until radio stations are willing to do what they're supposed to do: play music that the DJs think is good. Radio still gets a lot of listeners - I heard in 2008 listeners actually grew in number - and I sometimes hear new singles on the radio before I hear them elsewhere. I can count on one hand the number of artists that I've purchased CDs from due to discovering them only online - I think that part of the system has to evolve more...and it will.
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That is strange - totally opposite of me. I haven't listened to the radio in 3 years - other than occasionally for news. 100% of my music purchases in the last few years have come from:
- new stuff by artists I like
- finding "sounds like" stuff on the internet
- music I hear from TV shows, commercials and movies.
- Seeing what the .99c of the day CD from Amazon sounds like.
Everyone is different of course, but perhaps there are more and more people like me that are making the model this guy proposes more feasible.