From eric hill Sent Tue, Mar 23rd 1999, 01:49
From eric hill Sent Tue, Mar 23rd 1999, 01:49
>Just about everyone I know who makes CDR's (myself included) give them >away, because that's what they're for, distributing music in small >numbers to people who are enthusiastic about said music. > <snip> > >Charging an arm and a leg for a CDR is just plain greedy. welp, to sew this argument up, keeping the price high is a way for a label to continue "distributing music in small numbers to people who are enthusiastic." it's hard to pay that much without being committed to giving the tunes a good shake. there's an accelerating number of next-big-things coming through the ol' musical poop chute and it takes something special to gain an identity in that onslaught. perhaps they've/he's decided that there's going to be a price of admission. in a way, these would be more affordable if the buyer wasn't so stuck on keeping their collection up to date with the testosterone-laden squarepusher/vvm scene. though it might be nice for the price if there was a little more packaging involved (coming from someone who rather likes the extra-musical tidbits with his albums), not everybody is starting labels on the back of their hi-tech day job savings account. keep in mind that some of the most talked about and praised artists from this list are literally starving (the food kind) from day to day. eric