Article: Swapping pork for music

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Mennonite singer/songwriter offers unique music subscription service

Bryan Moyer Suderman, creator of the God's Love is for Everybody CD and member of Community Mennonite Church in Stouffville, has started an experiment in alternative music economics. Instead of just selling physical CDs, he's selling music like fresh vegetables-and taking unusual swaps in exchange for his tunes.

In an effort to move away from the extensive touring and selling process he describes as "the standard-and spectacularly unhealthy and unsustainable-model in the 'mainstream' music business," the singer and songwriter has launched his own music-by-subscription service. The idea came from a woman who told ...

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