flashbandit

I just discovered KickStarter, a pretty sweet site that a lot of musicians are using to promote themselves and raise money for recording albums. (Plus tons of non related projects are raising tons of money, like some video games are grossing in the millions!)

Thoughts?

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Obsceneairwaves

how far out there are we talking maaann?

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theogonia777

You just disovered it? You must feel how my great grandfather Boris felt when he discovered America back in 1908. I don't think that his name was actually Boris though.

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Reisgar42

As far as I've seen, Kickstarter has only been good for funding indie games and cookbooks. I have yet to see a musician successfully do something through Kickstarter.

Get a Bandcamp site and spread the word that way.

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Faux

A friend of mine from HS's band actually found success on kickstarter, so my thoughts on it are pretty positive.

Do Re Mi

I think KickStarter is really cool. It helps a lot of things get made that otherwise wouldn't due to lack of funding. Not much bad you can say about that.

It kind of tarnishes the image of a starving artist struggling and earning their way, but I guess it's like people buying your music if they're the ones paying for it to get recorded. That is, if they even do, it's not like everyone's on there getting bunches of money. So I guess it's still like earning your way, if not with a touch of begging.

We're all starving, anyway.

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Do Re Mi

And this. Bandcamp is pretty terrific.

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stratkat

Kickstarter demands you have a company and tax information..

I wanted to use it to raise money to have my last album professionally mastered, I couldn't sign up to it.

I've had music in several commercial videogames, it doesn't really rake in the fans.

Diskowarp label has success through bandcamp, but they're reletively known in the art and music communnity.

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flashbandit

I don't think it does need company info, I checked in the KickStarter FAQs and it says that when Amazon asks for your company name, you can easily just put 'individual'. It does however need tax info, but how is that a problem?

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blake1221

Some people like avoiding taxes.



Anyways, I wouldn't listen to a single artist that asks KickStarter to do the gruntwork for them, unless it's something minor. Plus, there are far better means of promotion. KickStarter is just whoring yourself.

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Rawshik

I disagree. It's super easy for people to pirate bandcamp music.

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blake1221

oh noes people get around buying music that should be free anyways :c

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Rawshik

I'm not saying I care about that personally, my policy is that I pirate music so everyone else can have mine for free as well. But some people are pretty snobby about that.

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theogonia777

His name might have been Ivan, Nikolai, or Alexander. I don't really know.

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flashbandit

Avoiding taxes, like you'd have to pay anyways if you got big enough. And I'd rather pay taxes on $10,000 bucks then not have it at all...

And why not use KickStarter? If someone else will raise all the money for you and expose you to diverse crowds for free, which in turn frees up your time to focus on your music, why not?

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willT08

In the EDM scene there's fairly well established channels for promoting music that's of one of the major genres (House, Dubstep, DnB etc). Huge channels like VitalFM and Monstercat get tens of thousands of views promoting underground talent and then there's a multitude of smaller channels all dedicated to the same thing.

Surely there must be something like this out there for rock/pop music?

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ron666

I think that one of the problems with these sites that raise money for musical endeavours is that the band has to be well known first, like Protest the Hero was. I don't know if a total unknown would've been as successful.

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food1010

You know a great way to promote yourself? Play shows. Meet people. Be professional. Set up a street team. Don't rely on the internet to spread the word for you.

I'm not trying to be cynical, I'm just saying that while internet resources are great and should definitely be used, you'll develop a much more loyal fanbase by actually doing things in person. You're much more likely to get someone to come to a show by having someone verbally invite them than just getting an online invitation.

Obviously it's hard to reach fans in different cities this way, but you can't ever forget the importance of it.

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