I have a couple of ways to sell my music at my live shows without making a CD.

Tools Needed:

-Laptop and an I pod adapter.
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I store my music in a separate folder
I set up my laptop before the show

After the show I tell people if they have an I Pod you will download it into their I Pod from your laptop for $1.00 a track.

You then sit at the laptop and take the adapter link it to their ipod let it read it and then click on the song you wanna send from your folder and drag it to the customers ipod. You can click and drag as many tracks as they wanna buy. Then when done eject their ipod once ejected then take out their adapter and its done.

Now of course they can buy online your tracks but when on the road you make your money from Cds and other merchandise. So the investment is around 1000 - 2500 dollars but worth the investment

In three years I predict Cds will go out of style for music and will be replaced with digital music sales. Ipods are huge right now and cd sales have dropped. The market most people want are people who spend money and most people who spend money have ipods. Do you know how much money you would save on production costs? No cover art. No liner notes. No extra paper, no plastic, it would be environmentally safer than Cds . Also if doing a show at a café that has wi-fi first ask them if its free then ask them since you are performing can you have free wi-fi. If they say yes then you can then email people a track and charge them a dollar

Also if you have a palm pilot you can beam someone a track and sell it that way as well.

Now I am not saying don’t buy Cds because now people still buy them but Cds have dropped in sales as well as CD players. And that’s because of digital music.

There is one small catch. The customers’ ipod has to be on manual or it will erase all the music on the customer’s ipod. You just make a sign that tell pople that and you ask them do they have their ipod on manual. So there it is. Would love feed back about this.