Sellaband.com — Get into the music business for $10

That's right.

Sellaband.com is a Dutch website which lets you invest as little as $10 in an act, and acquire an ownership stake with benefits: a free copy of their first CD (if they ever get to that point); a share of CD sales; and a piece of the advertising revenue generated for the website by your band.

There's only one small catch: the band has to attract a total of $50,000 to enable it to gain access to a recording studio and professional production, songwriting and marketing .

Lawrence Van Gelder wrote about the Amsterdam-based company in a short item in his "Arts, Briefly" column in the November 3 New York Times.