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January 25, 2006

Planning for obsolescence

Since I figure physical CDs will be dead in a coffin any time now, I’ve been thinking of different ways to offer my music at live shows. My first attempt will be MP3-only mini CDs. They’ll contain about 20 songs, including some demos and live tracks. They’re meant to be disposable, so you can upload the songs to whatever player you want, then throw the CD away.

I love mini CDs, they’re so little! I only made six of them so I’ll let you know how my little experiment goes.

I’m also considering pre-loaded USB keychain drives, but they’re still kind of expensive, as far as I can tell.

I figure in five years or so we’ll have devices that allow us to beam our music wirelessly to people’s iPods, cell phones or whatever, while simultaneously charging their credit cards a few bucks. Some company is gonna get rich selling this system to bands.

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And Ryan did speak thusly:

How about a vending machine that loads songs onto peoples existing USB devices? Wouldn’t evcn be that hard to construct if you used a human for dealing with the money.
And spinhead did speak thusly:

It’s called a ‘laptop’

“That’ll be $2.99 for Scott’s entire catalog . . [mysterious invisible downloading noises] . . there you go. How ’bout a tee shirt? Want fries wi–oops, wrong job.”
And Grant Robertson did speak thusly:

I love this idea Scott. Keep us posted on how this goes over at shows.
And alan did speak thusly:

Practice the phrase

“No, it *will* work in a regular CD drive”
And Kenneth Jr did speak thusly:

sweet! these little things could become instant collectibles besides a neat way to distribute your music
And Kenneth Jr did speak thusly:

sweet! these little things could become instant collectibles besides a neat way to distribute your music
And Kenneth Jr did speak thusly:

sweet! these little things could become instant collectibles besides a neat way to distribute your music
And carlo f did speak thusly:

great idea! how did you get the label on the CD? did u print it out urself or what? wouldnt that run kind of expensive?

sucks that around here, mini CDRs are more expensive than the regular CDRs..