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.