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Here's a simple personal take on the subject: I won't try the "fans name price" feature because I think it brings an attitude to music that I think is bad for the art form. If anyone is capable of setting a prize on your music it is YOU! Why? Because you created it and you know what you need for compensation. Ok, here it is again at a more detailed level: I have never believed in a market value for music, because myself I have always been hundred percent sure of the value of any music that I come about to hear. What causes this value is only the visions and emotions I am experiencing when hearing the music, nothing else. But I am not "a market" so I can not demand that everyone else shall value the same music as high as I do and agree to pay a high price for it. This leads to my second decision: to let the creator set the value for his music. Since I adore people that makes adorable music just as I adore the particular music it is an act of support to pay the price the creator asks for. In my specific case this is merely hypothetical since I don't have money to spend on music, but that's another discussion - I think you see where I'm getting. The bottom line is that only the creator should set the price. Just as he makes his artistic decisions in the first place he should set the price. Give it away for free or set a ridiculously low price but don't let the customer decide on price! That just stinks, degrading the true art. A customer can pay more, but that's note "a higher price", that is "support". Finally a related pragmatic truth out there: Setting a low price or allowing a chosen low price is for most people having an effect that makes them assume that the product isn't as good as it could be. An artist should be optimally proud of his production, any other attitude smells fishy. Better then for an artist that really wants some incredibly poor person to afford his work would be to make this person a special deal as an act aiming to support this person/cause. It's true that less people are buying music these days but some folks still do. Another known fact is that most professional artists spend nine times as much time promoting and administrating as they spend actually producing their work. If that boring muck-work isn't being taken care of yet, you have an excellent tip for how to boost sales ;-) Greetings from Sweden Per Boysen www.boysen.se www.perboysen.com www.looproom.com internet music hub On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Michael Peters <mp@mpeters.de> wrote: > My Bandcamp albums aren't selling very well. I know I'm not gigging a lot > and very few people (outside of this livelooping community) are aware of > my > music ... but maybe the albums are also too expensive (10 Euros mostly) > now > that people are used to getting tons of stuff for free. Has anyone tried > the > "let fan name price" feature for a while and has it made a difference? > > -Michael > >