I think Soundcloud is a great service. Let me see.... paying for a service that helps you distribute your music across to thousands and millions of potential people who are part of a community. I would rather pay a small monthly fee upfront that to pay a costly one on the backend. Pun intended. I think that the way music is consumed in the future will be in many forms. There will be no one way to get it. It's a preference of what works best for the individual fan. Basically there won't be any more quadopolies. Sure there's more noise but more choices are better for developing niches. It's not all going to be good when your cost of admission is low. We just have to figure out the best way to filter out the fluff. - Dale Adams from FriendFeed MT Plugin