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Twelve Inch Records is the current home base of Poster Children and their related musical projects.

Single of the Moment

The Singles of the Moment are new songs that appear here occasionally and contain the musical stylings of some or all of the members of PC. They're free for download but if you really enjoy a song, consider dropping some cash in the hat.
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About the Single of the Moment

There’s a lot of nattering about “The Future of Music” but what people are really talking about is “The Future of the Music Business”, and as a music fan and music maker I don’t really care how or if Sony, Time Warner, Rupert Murdoch or Apple will be able to make millions of dollars off of other people’s creativity in the next few years- I’m interested in hearing the next song or band that will make my day. The future of music is what it has always been: the future of music is musicians.

Most of the sounds I’ve loved over the past 20+ years have required some extra effort to find- commercial radio, chain stores and major labels rarely provided anything of interest; it was word of mouth channelled through friends, fanzines, college radio, independent record labels and independent record stores that gave me what I wanted. Now with the web, word of mouth is hyperlinked- it’s easier than ever to find music that is in line with your specific tastes and there’s no reason to spend any time or money supporting the major media companies’ DRM infested business model that benefits neither the creator nor the consumer.

So we’re going to try out an alternative way of doing things this year: The Single of the Moment. We’ve adopted the name of a series of 7″ singles we put out in the early nineties but things are a bit different this time around. Once a month a new song featuring some or all of Poster Children will be posted on the Twelve Inch Records site. You may freely download, listen to and distribute the song, all we ask is that if you really like it, consider dropping a dollar in “the hat”

Thanks!
Rick

February 3, 2007 on 5:32 am |

7 Comments

  1. Greatest idea ever!

    Comment by Les — February 11, 2007 #

  2. Thanks. I’ve always thought there should be a virtual money hat for bands. I often come across material through non-traditional means that I would like to directly compensate the artists for. Though this isn’t true for Poster Children, as I’ve purchased all of their releases!

    PS - “If you see Kay” remains one of my favorite songs of all time.

    Comment by DoctorTim — February 12, 2007 #

  3. Allright, loved the song and paid a buck…but it’s 07.03 in a couple hours! Where’s 07.02? Keep ‘em coming!

    Comment by jeffamerica — March 1, 2007 #

  4. The numbering system is a little misleading. It’s not supposed to represent the month but the sequence. 07.01 went live in February. 07.02 should be up in the next week or so!

    Comment by rnv123 — March 1, 2007 #

  5. Got it. Thanks Rick!

    Comment by jeffamerica — March 1, 2007 #

  6. You guys have always been progressive in your approach to music (and business) and I appreciate that. Cool single.

    Comment by Aaron G. — March 14, 2007 #

  7. I blogged about you guys and this post about the music business. right on…lots of artists are waking up to the realization that corporations don’t care and that the internet gives you the option of having a music career in which you can keep total control. My band Unola was so committed to that concept that we did everything backwards…recorded a 17 albums of material in one year (available as Unola 2000 - a ten CD box set and as downloads) and will slowly release each one separately over the however many years. We don’t tour and rarely ever played live. We were a conceptual art project as improvisation band. Thanks for being great at what you do!

    Comment by Todd — October 15, 2007 #

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