We like owning music, we like collecting and we presume others do too. Digital files do not satisfy our collecting instinct, we do not receive them in the post with excitement, they do not sit on our shelf with pride; that is a huge and equally important part of the music for us. We will not deny you this. Smiling Co**se believe in free music. We don't believe that free music is without value. We
believe that cost and worth are two different things. To sell our music limits the audience we can reach. To restrict how many people own our music is to increase its value artificially. The value of our music is in its content and not in its price tag. It may not suit the record industry but people, particularly DJ's, like sharing music, it is in our nature and we encourage it rather than demonise it. How can we offer both? We can't; it is inevitable that physical products carry a cost in both production and distribution. We can however attempt to keep the cost down whilst attempting to minimise our own losses. The tracks featured on the physical release still have all the rights the artists have granted to you in the 'Creative Commons' licence. A Creative Commons licence is a valuable gift to you from the artists involved in this project; we could not do this without the artists - they have costs in both time and equipment that few ever expect to recover. Whilst we do not expect donations please feel free to buy the artists a beer, they honestly deserve it.
