on highly skilled labor.  The cost of sound recordings is largely dependent on labor costs.  Technological advances have little effect on recording cost. This is the main problem with the technologists contention recordings should be free. They seem to think that the only people who work on recordings are the touring performers themselves.    Artists still have to pay for that highly skilled labor. Is the  mix engineer gonna follow us around on tour hawking HIS T-shirts to the audience? SLIDE 3 Freemiumnistas Of The World Unite! Nevertheless, I'm what you might call a "Freemiumnista".  I was a Freemiumnista before there was an Internet.  I get that not all interactions between fans and artists should be monetized.  I get that you can give away something and make more money in the long run.  Virtually every live show we've ever played is available free on archive.org.  Even before the internet we've encouraged and organized tape trees and later CD burn trees for distributing our live shows   And we spend a lot of time trying to get people to buy our studio albums as well. Unlike a lot of the Digerati I have walked the walk.  I still do. I've embraced many of the things that those on the tech side of the music business want musicians to embrace.  But what many of you forget is that IT IS MY CHOICE whether I choose to give away my songs or sell them.  IT IS MY CHOICE how and where to distribute my songs.