Don't Make Me LIKE Your Band Page To Hear Music
Yesterday, while procrastinating finishing the write up of the interview I did with Rev from Underride, I wanted to become inspired by some new bands. I took to Twitter and jumped through a bunch of bands I like and who they followed. That is when a disturbing trend appeared to me.
I try to do a feature every Monday on our Twitter account called New #MusicMonday, where I scour the interwebs to find some hard working band you have never heard of. Generally, I like to go to locations near rock clubs and scan what stickers jump out and rape my eyes. I make note and head back to the confines of my Masturbatorium and listen in solitude. Sunday, I took to Twitter and jumped through a bunch of bands I like and who they followed. That is when a disturbing trend appeared to me.
Most listed a Facebook fan page as their main page. I am fine with this, but I had to LIKE the band before listening to any of their songs. That is mindless clicking and I refused to do it. The more bands I cycled through just to get a taste of their sound the more LIKES I would have racked up. Luckily Al Gore invented Tabbed Browsing and I was able to search Reverb Nation for the band and get that taste I was looking for.
My advice to any band, stop making us LIKE your page just to hear your music. I know you use the "our page has xxxxx LIKES" as a marketing feature, but it's annoying. I could get more clicks and impressions on the site if I set the REFRESH rate to one minute, but I am not that big of a click whore to do that. You shouldn't be either.
I try to do a feature every Monday on our Twitter account called New #MusicMonday, where I scour the interwebs to find some hard working band you have never heard of. Generally, I like to go to locations near rock clubs and scan what stickers jump out and rape my eyes. I make note and head back to the confines of my Masturbatorium and listen in solitude. Sunday, I took to Twitter and jumped through a bunch of bands I like and who they followed. That is when a disturbing trend appeared to me.
Most listed a Facebook fan page as their main page. I am fine with this, but I had to LIKE the band before listening to any of their songs. That is mindless clicking and I refused to do it. The more bands I cycled through just to get a taste of their sound the more LIKES I would have racked up. Luckily Al Gore invented Tabbed Browsing and I was able to search Reverb Nation for the band and get that taste I was looking for.
My advice to any band, stop making us LIKE your page just to hear your music. I know you use the "our page has xxxxx LIKES" as a marketing feature, but it's annoying. I could get more clicks and impressions on the site if I set the REFRESH rate to one minute, but I am not that big of a click whore to do that. You shouldn't be either.
No shiz - losers
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Not everyone can be as cool as you, you know being a classically trained musician with a minor in webmastering. They are more like me a classically trained penis with a minor in webmasturbating.
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