Further adventures in music publishing One of my favourite bands - Fugazi - have started an experiment in getting their music out to their fans using the internet. Fugazi have always been the most independent of all the 'independent' bands. They have their own record label and throughout their career have kept prices low on their albums. Now they are selling CD's of their live shows.

"This site is a way to offer our audience access to selected tapes from that bank of recordings. We have digitally transferred to compact disc an initial sampling of twenty of these shows from various points in the band's career and outfitted each with a uniform generic cover with individual concert information and a track listing. Shorter shows that fit on one disc are available for $8 postpaid. Longer sets are on 2 discs and are available for $10 postpaid."

"It should be noted that these are very much the original recordings without any attempt to correct for things like volume changes, strange mixing effects, the occasionally out-of-tune guitar or the tape running out. Though the sound quality on these tapes does vary, if a show was too poorly recorded it didn't make the cut. We hope to add more shows in the future but for now here's twenty."

AUD$15 for a live double CD including postage? That's fantastic. All bands should do this - burn CD's of their live shows and sell them immediately after the show. Do you hear that sound BMG? That's the internet burning your business model...  ¶ 11:20 AM