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Yeah, the price is irrelevant.  Putting a monetary value on it sticks this on the shelf with other styles of music.  It's saying "hey we're just as relevant and mature enough" to other genres and there are tons of niche genres that sell their music.  It's especially important to do this with chipmusic because beforehand they were either files in hardware playable form or they were intergrated into something else.  (say, a game or a demo) As I said, you're drawing a line in the sand between that time and a new one.   "Yes I use this and this piece of hardware to make music, some other guy is using a Virus and some VSTs, perhaps a few old drum machines.  It's no less serious to what he's doing if I don't want it to be."

I think some people here are reading this as "we should sell our music for $$$" or "yeah man, next stop Hollywood" which is not the case at all. (and I'm certainly not doing it as anything other than spare time work)  But it will help to take a more mature starting position, then we can build on that on all fronts.  I'm definately not the only guy who wants to steer away from the "Mario pic in the interview and then some stuff about using a NES" kind of articles in the press, having a big pixelated Gameboy linked to everything etc. etc.  Obviously we can't instantly change that overnight but this is one step we can take now.

for the new FREE ART on their profiles.   FREE ART!

Well actually the original chipmod scene of late '80s-early '90s were drawing their own 32-byte waves and manipulating chipsounds "the right way". (infact pretty much the same way the Gameboy's triangle channel does it, and a few other devices)   It's only in the mid-'90s onwards that people were sampling whole c64 instruments and using them just like a normal sample.  Amusingly when people yell "fakebit" at tracker stuff it's the latter method that's far more accurate to that term.

Yeah, personally I think we should be selling our stuff just to "legitimise" it to an extent.   While I know it goes against some people's  ideology (which is fair enough) it does put us in the same bracket as artists working in other styles. (or genres or whatever we call it these days)   You buy some band off Amazon, you buy some chipmusic off Amazon. (or iTunes or Bandcamp or whatever)  We get away from being "those guys using gameboys who pop up on gaming news sites now and then."  I mean, that's what we want right? We want to move it away from being about the equipment we use and more what we're making with it?  (and, from my experience with the press last year, they're just as sick of that being the handle as we are.)

Before this makes me sound like a total breadhead I'll add if people don't want to pay they can always grab the stuff out of the webcache on Bandcamp, or just get a torrent from somewhere.  I have no problem with that.  Besides I always stick a few other tracks out for free anyway, I'd certainly never stop doing that.

But it is a pretty good way of drawing a line in the sand for this stuff, I don't think people should feel bad about it.

if you swap the colours around it could look like 8bc too!

(joke)