Jimmy at Music Arsenal joins the debate with a caution to artists not to just rely on MySpace as their primary conduit to their fans:
I the I find more often these days that many bands only have a MySpace (or PureVolume or TagWorld) pagerather than an actual band website. When I want to see a band’s upcoming tour instead of going to yourband.com, I have to go to myspace.com/yourband. This may make me sound lazy, but all too often I end up at the wrong band’s MySpace, a MySpace page with 1000 friends but no information or a page so mangled by a page editor that it takes 2 minutes to load. Finally, when the page does load, the layout and colors are so bad it’s completely unreadable.
Has MySpace gotten so big that personal band websites are no longer important? Domain names are cheap, web hosting is inexpensive, and designing your own web page is getting easier all the time.
I’m not saying MySpace isn’t an important marketing tool, but its not the only thing a band should use to promote itself. Hopefully, some MySpace exclusive bands will look into making a website. But if not, please just stop adding so many videos, pictures, animated gifs and funky mouse cursors that I never visit the page again. (Excerpted with permission from Music Arsenal)
