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Brad Sucks latest album for free — and Brad still gets paid! Posted on July 9th, 2009 NOTE: The 50 copies are gone. Took about an hour. I’m trying an experiment with a business model I like to call a reverse referral fee. Here’s how it works… You click on a link that lets you download a copy of Brad Sucks’ latest album, Out of It. The album of wonderful music is yours for free in every sense. (Share it! Please!) But, I’m going to pay Brad for each copy downloaded, at a bulk rate he and I have agreed on. This offer is good for the first fifty people who download it. After that, you can buy a copy on your own. Of course, Brad also makes his music available for free (in every sense), but don’t you want to support a truly webby, big-hearted musician who’s giving us his talent free of copyright, studios, and DRM? Doncha? So, if you want to be one of the fifty, click here for your free-to-you-but-not-to-me copy of Brad Sucks’ Out of It. [Tags: bradsucks music drm copyright copyleft business_models everything_is_miscellaneous ]free ] Tagged with: bradsucks • business_models • copyleft • copyright • digital culture • drm • entertainment • everythingIsMiscellaneous • everything_is_miscellaneous • free • marketing • media • music Previous: « Real photographs \|\| Next: Internet freedom, but not equality » 14 Responses to “Brad Sucks latest album for free — and Brad still gets paid!” Joey Mornin, on July 9th, 2009 at 2:01 pm Said: This is an awesome idea and very big-hearted of you. Thanks! Do you think this can scale? Or is this idea limited to free culture nerds? Mary Hodder, on July 9th, 2009 at 2:19 pm Said: hey david, listening now. super cool! thanks very much for the very kind gift! mary Betsy Aoki, on July 9th, 2009 at 2:25 pm Said: I got here from Mary Hodder’s tweet. Will listen to it today (but also curious about how this experiment works for you and for Brad). Cheers, Betsy davidw, on July 9th, 2009 at 2:26 pm Said: Joey, I honestly don’t know if it scales. It’s really a form of fan-as-patron. So, I don’t know if it scales, but it should be replicable pretty easily. gianluca baccanico, on July 9th, 2009 at 3:38 pm Said: you own him another download :) I’ll try to contribute too, making another video for one his great songs, everything counts, no ? jessamyn, on July 9th, 2009 at 4:30 pm Said: I will pay you a dollar if you will fix the apostrophe in the “Brad Suck’s” posessive in your post. Paypal okay? Andy Weinberger (Yes, I am related), on July 9th, 2009 at 4:40 pm Said: And what does he have to pay you to fix “posessive”? :) We all have finger slips from time to time. And where does my question mark go-inside or outside the quotation mark? I don’t know. davidw, on July 9th, 2009 at 6:34 pm Said: Jessamyn, you owe me dollar’s’s jessamyn, on July 9th, 2009 at 7:12 pm Said: iirc, I still have your address. Do you take checks? gianluca baccanico, on July 10th, 2009 at 4:56 am Said: by the way listening to this album is extremely well crafted, even better then the previous somehow I m not a music expert but I do recommend it David’s reverse referral fee experiment « Brad Sucks, on July 10th, 2009 at 12:39 pm Said: [...] on a bulk price, I rigged up a special download link he could distribute and he twittered and blogged it: I’m trying an experiment with a business model I like to call a reverse referral fee. [...] Jeremy Tanner, on July 10th, 2009 at 4:58 pm Said: Snagged it via your link… Thanks! Jeremy Dave Weinberger Shows How Fans Can Help Support An Artist As Well \| dv8-designs, on July 15th, 2009 at 8:43 pm Said: [...] didn’t just want to get more people to listen to the band Brad Sucks, he decided to pay Brad money for the first 50 people who downloaded his album. Brad Sucks has long been a big supporter of free business models, and eschewing copyright as being [...] WhyteWolf Technology, on July 15th, 2009 at 11:16 pm Said: Dave Weinberger Shows How Fans Can Help Support An Artist As Well… We’re getting pretty much overwhelmed these days by people sending in different examples of artists embracing new business models or the concept of connecting with fans and giving a reason to buy. It’s really great to see, though we just don’t have… Leave a Reply Name (required) Mail (required) Website Notify me of followup comments via e-mail	Web Joho only Entries (RSS) Comments (RSS).
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