{"id":243,"date":"2006-05-01T02:02:55","date_gmt":"2006-05-01T05:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fonz.net\/blog\/archives\/2006\/05\/01\/gving-away-free-music-profit\/"},"modified":"2006-05-01T02:02:55","modified_gmt":"2006-05-01T05:02:55","slug":"gving-away-free-music-profit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fonz.net\/blog\/archives\/2006\/05\/01\/gving-away-free-music-profit\/","title":{"rendered":"Gving Away Free Music == Profit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Pirillo talks about how TMBG profited  by giving him free music.  Thats actually how they roped me in to.   Years ago I downloaded a  ton of their music off napster as well as their free eMusic site.  Not knowing who they were I didn&#8217;t want to buy a CD yet.  After a few weeks of listening to &#8220;stolden&#8221;  mp3s I bought a cd.   Since then, I&#8217;ve bought several more, usually after hearing some of the songs on TMBG radio and now their podcast.<\/p>\n<p>The same thing happened with pretty much every other CD I&#8217;ve bought in the last 5 &#8211; 6 years.  Its how the Eels got me hooked,. Let me steal your music! If its really good I&#8217;ll end up buying it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chris.pirillo.com\/blog\/_archives\/2006\/4\/29\/1920503.html\">I Steal Music!!! (Chris Pirillo)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Pirillo talks about how TMBG profited by giving him free music. Thats actually how they roped me in to. Years ago I downloaded a ton of their music off napster as well as their free eMusic site. Not knowing who they were I didn&#8217;t want to buy a CD yet. After a few weeks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fonz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fonz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fonz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fonz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fonz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fonz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fonz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fonz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fonz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}