I'm not being hostile. I'm being constructive by pointing out what I see as flaws in your idea. There's a lot of idealism in grass-roots music promotion but very little realism.
1) I don't see why anyone would trust the judgement of anonymous people on the net. For example - the guy earlier that you rejected without even hearing his music.
I listened to his myspace, they weren't full quality. I couldn't gauge the quality of the recordings. I asked for full quality samples, he refused. His loss.
2) Your "advertising" in the Boston area is good for people in the Boston area. Does nothing for the rest of us.
I guess if you don't want fans nation-wide, you're thinking pretty small. I personally don't live in the same place as most of my favorite bands.
3) Dedicated sites are a dime-a-dozen. Facebook, myspace, soundcloud, reverbnation, soundclick, bandcamp, CDBaby, etc.
Not one of those is a dedicated site. Those are social networking sites with lots of bands. Every band should have a central main website, along with those satellites.
4) Download stores are just as plentiful as personal pages.
You're free to shop around for competitors but I'm not selling download stores, it's just a part of the package to streamline everything. You'd be surprised how many artists play gigs and haven't really figured out how to set up an MP3 shop. We're not just selling mp3s, we're also shipping the discs.
My basic point is that you have to offer something more. Something that really puts you over-the-top of all the stuff that's already out there for a nobody musician or band.
What I have offered is a lot more, I won't reiterate it, it's in my first post. You're negative, and so I'm going to stop responding to you. I was offering little more than a helping hand to artists who don't mind a little extra press. It's not like I was asking much in return. Besides, by your calculations of my absolute failure, if I took a percentage.. even 1% of zero is zero- so this would literally cost nothing.
But really I'm not trying to impress you Greg, I took a look at your music site, and it's not really something we'd sign on to anyway.
Feel free to let others join the thread though. I'm going to dismiss you as a troll from this point foward.