[atlantaprog] Re: Cheapness

I'm curious about something.  Many ARIA bands have put out at least one cd.
How much did you spend to do it, both on direct costs like mastering and
duplication, and indirect costs like buying your own recording equipment
(not including personal gear like instruments and amps)?

Has anyone else heard about LidRock?  It's a new GA company founded by Jeff
Arnold, founder of WebMD.  They're putting miniature cds into soft drink
lids, to be distributed at movie theaters and convenience stores.  LidRock
charges 80 cents to the retailer, who can sell the drink with a surcharge or
absorb the cost (more likely at a theater where the drink is $3-4 already).
The cd has a song or two, possibly some cdrom computer content, and you can
use it to get up to a $2 discount on the artist's full cd at selected
retailers.  Right now they're hawking the usual Britney/Madonna-type schlock
but what if this were expanded to include lower-tier acts, even indies?

Apple has launched iTunes for Windows and they said their goal is to sell
100 million songs by next April.  Good for them!

Chris, if you form a new band, "The Joe Blow Experience" would be a good
name.  Grandiose, yet self-deprecating.  ;-)

Brian
Lord Only


From: <UncleEggsy@xxxxxxx>

> In a message dated 10/26/2003 3:42:37 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> wheat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
> >
> > Album: The Beatles, Revolver
> > Year of Release: 1966
> > Estimated original price: $4.50
> > Price adjusted for inflation: $26
> > Format: LP
> >
> Technology has made music far cheaper and easier to record and produce.
It
> wasn't that long ago that a local band artist even having their own album
was
> unusual and a *big deal*.  Now you can go to any open mic night in town
and
> half the people there will be more than happy to sell you copies of their
CD,
> many of which are extremely professional in both sound and packaging, out
of
> their trunk.  If The Joe Blow Experience can record and produce their own
album
> for a few grand with no label support, then what excuse do the labels have
for
> blowing hundreds of millions of dollars recording and promoting the swill
that
> they're mostly pumping out these days?  What excuse do they have for
whining
> that they are losing money when the easy solution is staring them in the
face?
> Step one: Sign artists who will develop loyal followings and be successful
> over the long haul instead of *flash in the pan" image whores.  Step two:
Spend
> *less money* on recording, promotion, cocaine etc. and pass some of that
> savings on to the customer.  Step three: Legitimize music on the internet
with
> cheap pay downloads and targeted free downloads.
>
> CH
>
>
>
>

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