Go Phish!.

New Service Sounds Like Phish

"Last month, Phish joined with Elektra Records and nugs.net -- a free live-music site -- to introduce a unique Web music service that coincides with the band's first studio album and tour in two years.

For a fee of $10 to $13, the service, called Live Phish, features specially designed cover art and provides soundboard-quality downloadable recordings of Phish concerts less than 48 hours after a performance.

Shows are available in both unrestricted MP3 and SHN files -- a compacted and so-called "lossless" format." [Wired News]

Here's the key statement, though:

" 'The service is so affordable and easy to use that it's easier to just download (the show) than to bother trying to get it from a friend,' said Jason Colton, an associate at Phish management company Dionysian Productions."

How long until the rest of the music industry comes to this conclusion and starts making money instead of losing it?

[The Shifted Librarian]

I discussed this last month. You do not need to have too many people to spend $10 to make some change. ANd if you change the sets every night, adding a new cover song, you will start getting the collectors involved. The ones who want that one special song only sung one time. Added value items, covers, lyrics, biographical stuff, special club memberships and you can drag in more. This would feed not only their CD sales but their concerts also. It will be interesting to see what happens but it could be that Phish will be remembered for changing the business models, along with former Byrds singer Roger McGuinn who is publishing some works under a Creative Commons license.  10:31:09 PM    

Alvin Toffler. "The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn." [Quotes of the Day]

Samuel Butler. "The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way." [Quotes of the Day]

A nice pair.  9:39:51 PM