Comments on: At some point, you have to stop giving it up for free, and have them pay for it… http://www.thatretailchick.me/2009/11/03/at-some-point-you-have-to-stop-giving-it-up-for-free-and-make-them-pay-for-it%e2%80%a6/ Where The Music Industry Meets Music Retail! Tue, 07 Feb 2012 02:04:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: P. http://www.thatretailchick.me/2009/11/03/at-some-point-you-have-to-stop-giving-it-up-for-free-and-make-them-pay-for-it%e2%80%a6/#comment-48 P. Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:57:25 +0000 http://thatretailchick.me/?p=182#comment-48 Man I 100% agree with you. I DO NOT believe in giving away whole mixtapes and NO DJ street albums. Especially when you are independent. I work hard for my money and its just a waste of it to pay for studio time, mastering, pressing up copies of a single, mixtape, EP, etc. just to give it away... It might be ok to do it for a single, but anything past a single is just not smart. Plus, as I have learned, especially it has come to booking shows that if you come in and give away your single... they expect you to even do shows for free... Man I 100% agree with you. I DO NOT believe in giving away whole mixtapes and NO DJ street albums. Especially when you are independent. I work hard for my money and its just a waste of it to pay for studio time, mastering, pressing up copies of a single, mixtape, EP, etc. just to give it away…

It might be ok to do it for a single, but anything past a single is just not smart. Plus, as I have learned, especially it has come to booking shows that if you come in and give away your single… they expect you to even do shows for free…

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