Re: (idm) Phthalo pricing

From Brock Suter
Sent Mon, Mar 22nd 1999, 20:59

Marc 3 Poirier wrote:

>    It's funny that Dmitri tries to justify Phthalo's $12 EP & $17 album
> pricing by saying that they release stuff by relatively established
> artists, unlike most other CDR labels.  First of all, I wouldn't say that
> any of the musicians he's released music by are very well established at all.
>    Secondly, if that were the case, why is he running a CDR label?  It
> seems to me like the only draws to it are the low prices that you can sell
> the stuff for & the ability to easily put out music by unknown musicians.
> If he's making on average $11 profit per CD let's say, then that's about
> $2,700 per release, well enough to have made non-fragile real CDs with full
> colour artwork in an edition of 1,000.
>    Thirdly, that doesn't explain why the prices are way HIGHER than
> average, that would only maybe be an adequate explaination for prices being
> the same.

He's a bit up his own ass, if you want my humble opinion.

brock.