According to Garage Spin, the producers of the Sam Jackson flick “Snakes on a Plane” are looking for an indy producer to submit original music for inclusion on the movie’s soundtrack album. No idea what the odds are that your music might actually make it, but hey.  Check it out.

The advent of digital music has posed a number of problems to the music distribution establishment. Aside from the issues of music piracy (a term I use somewhat begrudgingly), which existed long before digital music (and began, notably, with the rise of cassette tape), digital music is pushing other methods of distribution slowly but surely into the fringe.

And I don’t just mean digitally recorded music. I mean digitally distributed–transferred between parties over the Internet. Apple’s iTunes has been a predominant force in the music consumer’s movement from the record store to
the online store.  So why are people still starting record stores? Who, at this stage, would bother starting up a company to sell shiny little discs?

Answer: Lala.com. This outfit lets you sell and trade your existing offline music collection (CDs), getting a few bucks in credit when you send them your discs. Then, you can cash in your credit for the CDs that others have traded in. The company pays a royalty to the artists and insists that, once you’ve ripped the CD, you erase it from your hard drive before sending it in (now THERE’s a leap of faith in the consumer public).

Of course, once the record companies stop producing CDs, which will be quite a few years yet, will Lala.com still be around, hocking used music and trusting its benefactors?  Something tells me “no”.

[Via GarageSpin]