'Fuck Freemium'. Devo Drummer Josh Freese Strikes Again With $75,000 Fan Offering - hypebot

My New Friends. For $75,000, one fan gets:

  • Josh to join their band for a month (or becomes your personal assistant)
  • They can take home one of Josh's drum sets
  • Josh writes and records a 5 song EP entirely about them
  • Take Shrooms and cruise Hollywood in Danny from TOOL's Lamborghini.
  • 500 copies of "My New Friends" (start your own online CD store...specializing in just this one CD)
  • Go get matching outfits at Tommy Bahama's and make everybody very sad.
via hypebot.com

I've been thinking a lot about the perils of freemium lately (free like herpes - http://www.flickr.com/photos/moloko0velocet/2364716954/).

This was too good to pass up, though.

Thanks to Jason Fisher at Epitaph - http://jasonfisher.tumblr.com

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Free Like Herpes

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Quite often, I'm in an environment where I'm selling against free & very low cost alternatives. I've been thinking a lot about how best to approach the real cost of free and how to translate that into a blog post. At some point, I'll do something a bit more articulate, but Zac Bir's t-shirt today at our Face to Face really summed it up nicely. I don't know enough about GPL to know the details of why people are so down on it. I think that the shirt expressed that, while something may appear free on the surface, in the grand scheme of things, free may end up being a whole lot more expensive. At some point, when it isn't so late, I'll do a longer post on the real cost of free. in the end, you get what you pay for.
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