October 4, 2006
Artists can sign up with textango and let people buy their music by SMS
Justin Oberman on mopocket has written up a fabulous new service called Textango , which allows any artist to sell their music via text message to anyone in the US with a cell phone.
This gives the artist the ability to sell music to anyone on the spot, on or off the computer. Textango takes what artists do best -- play music and promote, and translates it into sales for the artist.
How does it work?
Once artists have their keyword, they are free to sell music via text message. They can sell singles, EPs or whole albums.
Fans simply text the artists keyword to short code number 23333. They automatically receive a text message back that offers them the artist's music. They reply with a Y if they would like to buy the music, and the purchase is immediately charged to their cell phone bills."
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