Amanda Palmer raised $1.2m, but is she really 'the future of music'?

The Dresden Dolls star who hit the US top 10 last week with an album she funded through Kickstarter is under fire for her stanceDresden Dolls star Amanda Palmer has become crowd-funding website Kickstarter's most famous proponent, after she raised $1.2m via the site to release her solo album, which reached number 10 in the US albums chart last week.In the process she became the poster girl for those pronouncing the "old" music industry dead (who may include her husband Neil Gaiman, a patron of t...

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