I used to be an avid user of music blogs. they are a great source of music. unfortunately, most of them die really soon, and those who don't die have like five posts in three years. so on the 7th of February in 2009, I decided I'd make a blog of my own with free and legal music. my "concept" was that all the music was uploaded with the artist's indirect or (mostly) direct consent.
     to get off to a nice start I contacted my friend Morten, who runs a record label called How Is Annie. I was merely asking to mirror their freely available digital albums... and in a very capitalist moment, he just replied: "just upload everything". so now I'm a cool kid with indie cred, and he's going out of business... lol, ok not really. I'd actually argue that the only affect this deal has had on his label is that more people know about it. the same goes for every band that ever has appeared on my blog. what's the worst thing that could happen? no one downloads their stuff? well... that's a risk worth taking, because this site could potentially get you *a lot* of new fans.

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