June 11, 2003
The Kennedy Files
Even today, in the age of digital music distribution, there are still reasons to buy CDs (like the freakin' iTMS still isn't available in Canada). I had a pretty great experience buying John Opferkuch's CD The Kennedy Files from CDBaby yesterday, and I thought I'd share.
First of all, John is one of my colleagues at Art & Logic who is apparently also a fantastic Jazz pianist. He released his first CD recently and I decided to buy the CD mostly because I know him (he drove me to the Norton Simon Museum during this year's A&L annual meeting in April). So, the decision to buy was already pretty much a lock. But then it turns out that CDBaby streams hefty sections of the whole album, so you can actually listen to a couple of minutes or so from each track. It's very nice -- from my vague recollections and the series of 2 minute clips streamed from CDBaby, I can confidently recommend it. Finally, CDBaby accepts PayPal payments, so it was a no-brainer. I've got a hefty balance in my PayPal account from all those eBay sales I've made in the past couple of years and I've been looking for opportunities to lighten it.
No, I will not send you money.
Quite a coincidence as I was passing on the CD Baby site to a collegue I work with who is in a band. They've put out a few CDs now, all of which are surprisingly good. I also read that Steve Jobs was talking to some independant labels and offering them the same deal as the "Big 5" in order to get some of their content on the iTMS.
Posted by: Craig Marykuca at June 12, 2003 11:00 PM