How to sell music, 2011 edition:
You can buy Wilco’s new album on their site, on Amazon, on iTunes, etc. And you can also hear it for free, with their blessing, all over the Web. Which is basically how you have to do it these days. This embed (assuming it works) comes from CBS, which does these cool shows after Letterman tapes. And here’s NPR, because we’re old. Note that Wilco is now putting this stuff out on their own label, which means that every sale they don’t make comes out of their own pocket — no advance to not earn back against — and every sale they do make should be awfully lucrative for them. Assume they keep around 60 percent of every dollar post-fees.
