I Hate Mornings

h3. An offline voluntary pricing experiment
The last few years have seen a host of interesting online experiments with voluntary pricing models for music. I came across the idea through “Jonathan Coulton”:http://www.jonathancoulton.com (internet superstar), who was himself blogging about “Jane Siberry”:http://sheeba.ca/store and “Songslide”:http://www.songslide.com/About.aspx. The system generally relies on an artist having an established and loyal fanbase [...]

I create music all the time. Mostly I create it in my head, but often I write it down (sometimes lyrics, sometimes chord symbols, occasionally real musical notes on little shakily-drawn staves). I really enjoy doing this, so it creates value for me. Unfortunately, nobody else could care less whether I’m scribbling inspired melodies or not.