Recent Online Music Distribution Musings #1
Tuesday, August 18th, 2009
Hamada
I was playing some old Nils Petter Molvaer (lastfm, wikipedia, fan-site, official) this morning (can it really be 12 years since Khmer came out?!?!?) and wondered what he had been up to recently.
Turns out he released a new album/cd in April this year – Hamada (review at AllAboutJazz) – though it has had hardly any coverage/press. Based on the review, love for his previous music and a feeling that I ought to buy a copy and support the artist (he’s gone “own label”) I checked out Amazon.co.uk and Play.com – neither of which stock it (CD or download).
Oh! how odd.
So I double checked his own site (and the horrible/unusable MySpace page – I won’t link to it) and he neither offers CDs or downloads for sale directly – nor links to suggested stores/merchants. Digging further I could probably get an (expensive) CD import – or possibly sign up to a German online store and download mp3s (means creating a new account, possible restrictions on my right to buy via a UK IP address).
Interestingly… this fan site forum page gave links to a fileshare site where (it appears) the whole album is available for free.
What would you do?
