Amie Street, wonderful site though it was, is no longer*. Seriously. Go to amiestreet.com and you're now redirected to the Amazon MP3 store. Amazon, you see, was an early investor in Amie Street, so I guess they got the rights to the domain name when the company folded. I'm getting away from the point, though. The point is that Amie Street had a great model for independent artists to try to get some traction: all your songs started off free, and gradually increased in price as more and more people downloaded them. Users could recommend tracks to other users (and in doing so, could gain credit for themselves if their recommended songs climbed in value). It was a very cool idea and I'm sad that it didn't work.
Amie Street was also the only place I ever made any attempt to sell my own music. Turns out the full market value of sulky, overly melodramatic and indulgent amateur pop songs is $0.76. I know, because they sent it to me via PayPal the other day. I'm pissed because I think that might put me into a higher tax bracket.
* Full disclosure: for a little while in 2007, Amie Street was paying me to write reviews of things in their catalog. No, I never reviewed my own record.
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