We are three close friends who share a love of music. One of us is a professional gigging musician and PHP programmer; one of us has been a marketing professor at a Big Ten University and is now a record producer; one of us has been a top music agent, executive producer and manager. Having seen the potential of the internet, we all asked ourselves why independent artist weren’t selling their music directly from their WEB site. Last year we tried to buy some off the shelf software to sell our songs directly. Needless to say, nothing was available, so we decided to program MySongStore ourselves. MSS is programmed in Linux using open source code. We believe that digital download is the way of the future for bands to take control over the distribution of their artistic endeavors.