Latest karma CD is for March 2006.

“Fair podcasting” is me giving something back to the artists providing free music. I believe free and legal MP3s are a great marketing tool for new acts (Penny Broadhurst has clocked up over 3000 downloads of a poetry track), they are better than streams (since we can listen to new stuff on the move on our shiny MP3-players) and they give the consumer no legality headaches. Plus there is no DRM.

So what do I give apart from my time and a mention here (and also on the more popular halvorsen)?

Money. I purchase a CD for every month I do a podcast. Not just any CD, but a CD from one of the acts played on my shows. I can’t buy a CD from every artist played (my funds are limited) and some artists have no intention to provide physical product — they are happy to give away their music for free. So there you have it — the symbiotic relationship showing that a free MP3 track can lead to a purchase of a CD. Fair podcasting. Or as Nick Lowe sings, Music for Money.

List of purchased CDs.

Links point to mention on Halvorsen (where the purchases are mentioned as they happen).

• March 2006: We’ll All Go Riding on a Rainbow — The Caretaker
• February 2006: The Back Room — Editors
• January 2006: no podcast
• December 2005: Comfort Room — Phillip Eno
• November 2005: thickfreakness — The Black Keys
• October 2005: Veneer — Jose Gonzalez
• September 2005: Saul Williams — Saul Williams
• August 2005: no podcast
• July 2005: Not Cities Left & Protest EP — The Dears
• June 2005: The Ouch. The Touch — The Grates
• May 2005: The Willows — Belbury Poly
• April 2005: Kicking On — Gin Palace
• March 2005: Government Commissions — Mogwai