Not to mention the money lost in epic battles over unpaid royalties. The site gives free promotion and disk space to any artists who want to join. The artists retain the copyrights, link to their own Web sites and can offer their work elsewhere at the same time and terminate the relationship whenever they want. They can get daily updates on the number of visits to their page and the number of song downloads. If this direct marketing of discs over the Web takes off, musicians would greatly benefit.
Most record labels pay the artist only a buck or two per disc sold.
The site, according to president and founder Michael Robertson, has 15,000 songs by 4,000 artists in 37 different genres. A Band Called Horse, Rocket City Riot, Zava, Los Mox, the Gravity, A Modern Joy, Junkie, Idle Kings. That's the point. Yes, but not uniformly. In fact, sound quality tends to be variable.