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Dave,

Wow.. sorry but you're totally missing the point here. The "social" part is to attract fans and keep them coming. Do you really think the fans are just going to come and listen to your music sort of randomly and without any reason to? What happens when 100's or 1000's or 10,000 or 100,000 songs are on that other site? No one will ever hear you and no one will have the slightest reason to care.

As for their claim of being the "official" anything.. that alone is reason to consider them a scam. There's no such thing as an official A&R anything for everyone or everything... as Michael suggested, they COULD be the official A&R for Sony.. or something to that effect.. but if they were, they'd scream it from the rooftop. Their claim is as hollow as the 1000's of restaraunts that claim to have the world's best Chili or the greatest Hamburger. Or there's people who PAY for the rights to be called official, like the official sponsors of the Olympics. But really.. how lame is "Offical A&R Resource System?" Extremely would be my answer.

If you don't want to give fans a reason to come and listen, then no one is going to hear you. If you have to PAY those guys money to listen (i.e. as a service to you), big deal. You can pay people on this very site to listen to your music. All that will result is you having less money. If they plan on competing with TAXI, they can stand in line with all the failed companies that have come before them trying to do the same thing. TAXI has a 16 year head start on them. If anyone could claim being the "official" A&R company, it would be them.

When a site has nothing about them viewable to the public without forcing you to give them your contact info (which is a great money maker when you want to sell info to marketing companies and spammers of all types, or simply to spam them yourself forever and a day afterwards) and they have a really stupid name that fans are not likely to be able to find even if they are looking (since it's so hard to spell) it raises a large number of red flags. And without being user friendly, why would anyone ever need or want to go there to hear music when there's a zillion other places to do it? The answer is, they won't.

So have fun on that site getting heard by no one. And wait for the other shoe to drop when they need to either charge you money to be there or come up with some gimmicks to get anyone on the planet to care.

Brian