Downloading does not cause word of mouth…

Jun 20th, 2003 | By Joe Taylor Jr. | Category: News

…it will always work the other way around. Seriously, even if every musician on the planet had their music on iTunes or KaZaA, the only way an audience member would even think to download them would be if they heard about it first. So says this great panel at CMJ.

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