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Sox:
Hey, Listen!
My cheap boss won't pay for a PRS license so I'm looking for a wide variety of free royalty free music to make some playlists for the shop. I'm sure a few of you reading this have some recommendations, suggestions and advice, and maybe even a few recordings of your own kicking around that you'd be okay with me playing at work.
We really need music in the shop, at the moment we have the option of golden silence or a TV that plays mostly static.
Help me out?

StaedlerMars:
You could use spotify? Or do you need a license to play that in public spaces?

Sox:
The PRS are a royalty collection agency for musicians. If you play music publically, they collect the royalties on behalf of the musician. Sounds awesome, right?
You need to purchase a license from them to play any copyrighted music in a public space. They're rather indiscriminate...


--- Quote ---Following a furore in the media, the PRS apologised in October 2009 to 'singing granny' Sandra Burt, a 56-year-old shelf-stacker at a village in Clackmannanshire for heavy-handedly persuing her for singing to herself while stacking shelves. She was initially told that she would be prosecuted and fined thousands of pounds. However, they subsequently acknowledged their mistake with a bunch of flowers.
--- End quote ---

Yes. These guys threatened prosecute and fine a 56 year old woman because she was singing copyrighted songs to herself while stacking shelves in a supermarket.
Turns out, they're not so hot. A huge amount of musicians hate them too.
What I'm looking for is music/muzak that is not covered by the PRS. I would like to try and maintain some standards however. Easy as it'd be to get some elevator muzak playing in the shop, I don't think I could listen to it for several hours a day, every day.

See?

a pack of wolves:
Yeah, you really don't want to try slipping by them. God knows how, but they always seem to find out about everything.

The only stuff I have that I know to be totally royalty-free is my old hardcore band, but that's not going to be appropriate for a shop. I'll ask if any of the more palatable bands I know aren't signed up with PRS though.

Sox:
It's a slow solution, but I'm recording my own music too! And those money grubbing whores won't be seeing a penny.
Me neither, but that's not the point...

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