For some time now I have had a profile on mySpace, and for some time now I have been coming to the conclusion that it is a total waste of time!
As far as I can tell, it seems to be about numbers: how many friends one can get, and not so much about the music any more. Not that it ever was. In my case, at any rate.
So within the next 24 hours my profile will disappear into the great black hole of profile cyberspace, never to be seen again.
As far I, and many other artists are concerned, it is way better to have one's own domain and a quality shop with free music and what not than it is to try and drive sales through sites like mySpace and Facebook.
Apologies to those of you who are our 'real friends', but you already know where to come for all the latest news and tunes, anyway. In my opinion, it is always better to go straight to the artist than some third party hype machine.
It's not all negative, though: mySpace is really great to find new music, as is CDBaby. I tend to listen and if I like what I hear, go to the artists proper homepage. That's what it should be about.