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Wow this thread picked up the last few days. A few things: It?s important to understand the difference between what Spotify and downloading (legally or pirated) are offering the listener. Spotify is access based; you do not own the songs you listen to. You merely pay for the right to listen to them ...

e.g. Spotify? Some of their UI needs improvement, they don't pay musicians very much, and they have some big holes in their catalog (Beatles, Zep, and some other biggies). However as a service, I think Spotify has the high convenience factor that you rightly claim is needed to slay piracy in a capi...

Would you be more likely to buy records from bands if they came with a free t-shirt or some other "value added" extras? What would you like to receive for your music dollars? If I'm ordering directly from a band...sure, a t-shirt, great art (maybe an vinyl-sized insert book that ships when I order ...

And one more thing, I think Neil Young's comment on piracy is more about the mainstream method of music consumption rather than any type of broad statement on the industry in general. He was articulating FM radio (over-compressed, main method of consumption for years) compared to today's mp3 (over-c...

Some good discussion. As a 28 year old musician/consumer I've become an adult in this climate and many people are correct when you say that the average person in my generation believes they are 'entitled' to entertainment. The way to win us (using this term loosely) back is to provide a service that...

So what I'm getting from this is: 1) just make it sound as good as one can, and 2) the goal when mixing is (or ought to be) to end up with tracks that need very little alteration during mastering. as long as you're not tying the ME's with overdone compression/limiting on the mix bus, then yes 1st p...