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ShareMusic - Share Music for Charity, Not iTunes
Thursday, October 09, 2008
With the economy in a tailspin, we all need to remember to help each other, and ShareMusic.com (http://www.ShareMusic.com) is the perfect way; Austin Washington (http://www.AustinWashington.com), eureka-like, while singing in the shower, came up with the only serious challenger to iTunes since its inception: ShareMusic.com - "Share Music for Charity"
WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Rather than another copycat site
allowing people to buy and sell music (iTunes, Amazon's download service,
eMusic, Napster, etc.), Austin Washington has built a better mousetrap.
ShareMusic.com allows people to share music for charity.
ShareMusic provides the tools, and a forum, for everyone, from major label
artists to those artists too cool to be major label artists, to share music
for charity.
"No one wants to steal from their favorite artist," says Austin. "And
everyone wants to help others. But no one really feels guilty stealing from
Sony, or big music corporations. This is the real reason so many people,
guiltlessly, download music. But what if they were, instead, stealing from
starving children in Africa? Or, what if, they were stealing directly from
their favorite artists? Radiohead proved people happily give money, even to
millionaire artists, who give them music they value. And what kind of kid
cracks open their UNICEF charity box, or would steal from a starving child?"
ShareMusic is in preview mode for now and will integrate tools more fully
over the coming months.
How it happened:
Last summer, Austin received an offer of $25,000 for the domain
ShareMusic.com, from Silicon Valley types wanting to "monetize communities
centered around sharing music."
Singing in the shower the next morning while thinking of the monetary
value of ShareMusic.com and of the emotional and spiritual value of music,
which saved Austin's life during a very dark period, Austin started thinking
about how many other people sing, not just in the shower, and make music and
record it.
Musicians around the world pay services such as SongCast.com,
TuneCore.com, Nimbit.com and others 5-20 dollars a month to maintain their
songs on iTunes. Some services upload 5,000 new songs a week. Almost none of
these musicians make up their hosting fees from sales -- they do it for their
pride -- they feel if people give them a few dollars for their music, their
music has value.
On the other side of the coin, many people don't like to pay for music
downloads, as they feel they are supporting Sony et al., and not the musicians
themselves -- people who wouldn't dream of stealing from a starving baby, or
even from their favorite artist, think nothing of stealing from Sony/Apple.
But ShareMusic.com offers a better way.
ShareMusic.com provides the tools for musicians around the world to
satisfy their pride, and music lovers a way to reward musicians, with a clear
conscience. ShareMusic.com is a site where people share music with the
world -- and raise money for charity.
The musicians will end up financially better off, as at least they won't
be blowing their money on iTunes intermediaries. Also, many more people will
actually pay to download these songs, as people who would not consider paying
one dollar for an MP3 will gladly give five or ten dollars to a charity.
Everyone is better off.
Long-tail-like -- 5,000 songs a week on just some services -- it's a huge
number of people -- huge. When these musicians are searching for things to do
with their music, they will discover ShareMusic.com
(http://www.ShareMusic.com) and it will encourage them to promote charities,
and even to give to charity themselves, as well as encouraging their listeners
to give, too.
Everyone benefits.
CONTACT:
VOICE: + 1 323 969 2446
FAX: + 1 309 414 6554
EMAIL: AustinWashington.com/Contact.cfm
(http://austinwashington.com/contact.cfm)
ShareMusic.com (http://www.ShareMusic.com)
AustinWashington.com (http://www.AustinWashington.com)
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SOURCE ShareMusic.com
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