The basics of Musicslu:<p>How does a community purchase work?<p>1. The artists of We Are Artists lists a total amount they would like to sell their release for, in this case $1,500.<p>2. You name your own price, using the "Make a pledge" button above, and offer the amount you would help purchase We Are Artists for.<p>3. If the total $1,500 is raised before Nov 27, 2009, the pledges are given to the musicians and the album is released under the Creative Commons license as a download for free sharing.<p>4. If the entire $1,500 is not reached, all pledges are discarded, and everyone walks away like nothing happened. The music is not released under Creative Commons and you pay nothing.<p>--<p>Musicslu is an attempt to address the problems with pirating music. If some music pirates could take a few steps out of their trenches, and some artists take a few steps out of theirs too, this could work.<p>"A cure for the disease of which the RIAA is a symptom."[<a href="http://ycombinator.com/ideas.html" rel="nofollow">http://ycombinator.com/ideas.html</a> , listed at #1]
If not the cure, at least a solid attempt.
I know I'm going to be slammed with downvotes, but I don't care, $1500 is a pathetic price for a CD. I think the concept has some cool potential, but an artist can't possibly survive on $1500 per album. And why the hell are there artists on here which are already on record labels that are clearly not going along with this and what the hell does "pending approval" mean. I'm sorry, but if you want this to work, it's going to have to be reasonable for artists, not deceive people into thinking music is there that isn't, and make a heck of a lot more sense.