10 Musicians Who Encouraged You To Steal Music
6. Amanda Palmer's Email
Amanda Palmer - who achieved much of her fame performing with the Dresden Dolls - has long been an advocate for file sharing and free music downloads. She has spoken multiple times about the issue, once stating:
"The fact that a couple of hundred thousand of people in America are listening to my record but only, like, whatever, about 25,000 have actually gone into a store and bought it, that's awesome."
That may seem strange at first glance, given that this would mean 175,000 people who haven't paid for the record. However, there is a method behind the apparent madness.
In an open email that ended up being reblogged, Palmer highlighted just how little she made from the record company that supposedly wants to end piracy to protect artists. With a little ingenuity she managed to make more in one night from Twitter and her own merchandise than she had made from her record label for sales of her 2008 album 'Who Killed Amanda Palmer', despite the album hitting 77 in the US Billboard 200.