How Grandfather Made A Record With Steve Albini In Three Days, Part IV
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AaronP
November 8, 2010 at 10:34 pm (14 years ago)Great seriues, but one nitpick: “I can guarantee that we would not have had nearly as many downloads of our album if we charged for it, or required personal information from the listener.”
No, you can’t guarantee that, because there’s no control group to compare against. You might have had just as many downloads, especially given a huge number of those are traffic from people who found out about the record through this series (like me). You can hypothesize that the numbers would be different, but we don’t really know that they would have been, nor in which direction.
Grandfather
November 8, 2010 at 11:27 pm (14 years ago)Aaron,
You are right, I should not have used the word “guarantee”. I came to this conclusion after speaking to a few bands in a similar position to us (lesser known, completely independent and self-sufficient) They released their debut records around the same time as us, though charged for the downloads, asked for email addresses and had substantially less downloads than we did. However, you are right, that I cannot be empirically certain of my claim.