Phish Fans' Devotion Offers Lucrative Net Opportunity

from the look-at-that... dept

Back in January we wrote about the band Phish's plan to offer live recordings of their concerts online for downloading. It appears this strategy is working. In the first few months of offering this deal, the band has made over a million dollars from doing so, saying that it was "profitable from day one." Just another example that there are different business models out there for bands willing to experiment with them.
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  1. identicon
    Anonymous Coward, 5 Aug 2003 @ 9:10pm

    W is for Welfare

    Of course, this is on top of Phish having gotten where it is thanks to the music industry.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  2. identicon
    Anonymous Coward, 6 Aug 2003 @ 9:33am

    I is for IGNORANT

    Yeah, Phish fans love conglomerations. :-)

    *wink*

    link to this | view in thread ]


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