I’m lucky enough to have several friends in the music world. Most of them, like me, do everything they can to get their work out to the public… preferably at a low cost. In hopes of helping out a few friends, I’ve compiled a list of services which I find to be very worthwile:

1. CDbaby – Cdbaby is one of the greatest resources available to unsigned artists. For a one time fee, they distribute your tunes to all of the major online outlets (amazon, itunes, rhapsody, etc.). Plus they give you a sale page which you can direct your fans to for purchasing your CD. All you have to do is supply the goods, they take care of the rest and send you the money.

2. Snocap.com – I just dicovered this great little tool. All you do is sign up, upload your MP3’s, set the price, and you can sell them on your website, your myspace page, anywhere. All the code is provided for you. Have a look www.snocap.com

3. Tunecore.com – tunecore charges you yearly, however they will put your MP3’s on all of the leading downloading sites (Itunes, amazon, rhapsody). I prefer CDbaby, but I thought I would mention this one as well.

4. karmafan.com - This is an “i’m great so give me some money for free” website. You sign up, they give you some code to place on your website or myspace page, and people can pay you money because they like your music, or because they think you are great, or just because they have it to throw away. Odd, but hey there’s a potential for free money.