However, as a fellow audiophile and concert goer, some of the best concerts I have ever seen have been from some very mellow bands (Air, Sigur Ros, Broadcast – all gave supreme performances that transcended their recording efforts). But if they are expensive, skip it, there are plenty of good shows around that are cheap. But perhaps concert attendance deserves its own topic.
Just my 2 cents.

Dave, part of the Minus 15 percent Aerospace Engineers coalition

If they really want easy exposure and want to make remote purchases of their album very easy, they can simply have CDBaby post their album on iTunes. That’s how I’d prefer to buy, though I probably will order a hard copy long before it goes online.

I’ve been really into some mellow music such as this (Damien Rice, Iron & Wine, Nick Drake), and it’s certainly cool to support new artists