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Gaggle charge £3000 for new single
By CMU Editorial | Published on Wednesday 19 December 2012
Following yesterday’s news that Mike Doughty is releasing a song at the price of $543.09 (albeit with every customer getting an original rendition of it), indie choir Gaggle have gone a step further and put their new single, ‘Power Of Money’, on the market for £3000. In this case, the price tag is a comment on the difference between the perceived and actual cost of music – £3000 being the amount of money they estimate it cost them in total to create that one recording.
The group explain: “What does money mean to you? How do you put a value on the things you care about? Is money the same thing as worth? This song is precious. And yet, we’re told that, nowadays, ‘a single’ is almost valueless. And that pisses us off. So we have done a budget of how much this single ‘cost’. The many hours it took to write, arrange, compose, master; the expertise of all the musicians, technicians, designers, producers involved; all money, time, energy, love and blagging that was ploughed into making all that happen. And [we have] come up with a VALUE. We are putting this tune to market for the sum of £3000”.
So, at a price of very slightly under £1000 per minute, you can choose to own the song in MP3, WAV or FLAC format here.
Or you can just watch the video on YouTube for nothing at all:
