Thank You Music Fans Everywhere; and Thank You Reverb Nation.
I'm so thankful for Reverb Nation that you're able to download a song of mine completely free and I can get some money based on how many people do that.
http://www.reverbnation.com/marcofrucht
As itty bitty as the amounts are, they add up and they've surpassed everything I've ever gotten from iuma.com and mp3.com back in the day.
I remember my very first IUMA check (independent underground musicians assocation) and it was like a dollar and a half I think for the whole quarter, but it sure was something. I was a musician and I was making money, Yippie!" LOL.
Of course I got one bigger check a few months later, and then the next quarter IUMA went out of business.
Them's the breaks, I guess. But for however long ReverbNation continues allowing me to give you an .MP3 you can download absolutely free for some of my songs and I can get compensated with a little bit of money for how much extra traffic I'm bringing to their pages, I'll be forever grateful.
And why am I pleased for things like a buck and a half here and there? Well, I'll tell you many years ago a friend of mine in Denmark told me he could host 4 of my songs on his server. I think it was "Hey Mon," "Honey I Shrunk The Batman TShirts," (Also known as the Gotham City 501 Blues) "Guerillas in the lobby," and "School Of The Americas."
Well make a long story short, he was contacted rather quickly and told that unless he wanted to charge some amount for each download and give the Norwegian government a percentage, then he and I would have to pay them something like 700 Kroners a year. Yes, it was by official cease/desist letter.
Boo!
I guess this was a longwinded way of saying Thank you Reverb Nation. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
marco
http://www.reverbnation.com/marcofrucht
As itty bitty as the amounts are, they add up and they've surpassed everything I've ever gotten from iuma.com and mp3.com back in the day.
I remember my very first IUMA check (independent underground musicians assocation) and it was like a dollar and a half I think for the whole quarter, but it sure was something. I was a musician and I was making money, Yippie!" LOL.
Of course I got one bigger check a few months later, and then the next quarter IUMA went out of business.
Them's the breaks, I guess. But for however long ReverbNation continues allowing me to give you an .MP3 you can download absolutely free for some of my songs and I can get compensated with a little bit of money for how much extra traffic I'm bringing to their pages, I'll be forever grateful.
And why am I pleased for things like a buck and a half here and there? Well, I'll tell you many years ago a friend of mine in Denmark told me he could host 4 of my songs on his server. I think it was "Hey Mon," "Honey I Shrunk The Batman TShirts," (Also known as the Gotham City 501 Blues) "Guerillas in the lobby," and "School Of The Americas."
Well make a long story short, he was contacted rather quickly and told that unless he wanted to charge some amount for each download and give the Norwegian government a percentage, then he and I would have to pay them something like 700 Kroners a year. Yes, it was by official cease/desist letter.
Boo!
I guess this was a longwinded way of saying Thank you Reverb Nation. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
marco