{"id":1026,"date":"2004-07-09T04:24:01","date_gmt":"2004-07-09T09:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/the-tmbg-music-store\/"},"modified":"2004-07-09T04:24:01","modified_gmt":"2004-07-09T09:24:01","slug":"the-tmbg-music-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/the-tmbg-music-store\/","title":{"rendered":"the tmbg music store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>in stark contrast to the <a href=\"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2003\/12\/the_metaroj_music_store.html\" class=\"broken_link\">meta-roj music store<\/a> which is still entirely vapor (although investors are welcome),  they might be giants have a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theymightbegiants.com\/\">real music store<\/a>.  real,  as in, up and running and taking your money and producing bits.<\/p>\n<p>what&#8217;s interesting is that tmbg seems to have realized the value of distribution on the net without drm.  of course, the industry will tell you that they&#8217;ll be out of business in weeks as everything they put up gets scooped up into pirate networks and sucks all the listeners away from their own (costly) option.<\/p>\n<p>i&#8217;ll tell you that loyal tmbg fans will be back for more.<\/p>\n<p>and i&#8217;ll also tell you that the revenue-split on the 99-cent tracks and $9.99 albums is much better in this store than it is on, for example, itunes.  at least as far as the musicians are concerned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>in stark contrast to the meta-roj music store which is still entirely vapor (although investors are welcome), they might be giants have a real music store. real, as in, up and running and taking your money and producing bits. what&#8217;s interesting is that tmbg seems to have realized the value of distribution on the net [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}