From Laurens Vets Sent Tue, Jul 23rd 2019, 20:47
From Laurens Vets Sent Tue, Jul 23rd 2019, 20:47
I understand bringing out limited edition 'special' vinyls, but at least make a regular release available as well. There's absolutely no point to what's happening now. Neither the artist nor the label receive a share of the highly inflated prices... On 23-Jul-19 13:37, Clint Anderson wrote: > yeah i mean > i assume it must be some strategy relating to sales metrics or something? > making the release sell out repeatedly by having very few copies? > > i dunno because you'd be making less money... and making it so that > less people can hear your music > i'm not clear what the goal is? > to create an artificial sense of scarcity to increase value? possibly > but that to me implies that the label doesn't think the music is that > great by itself, and their creative marketing is the only thing > popularizing it? > i love brainwaltzera but i don't know how to feel when they do stuff > like this, it's like, i love you guys, why would you tease us with a > new album we can't even LISTEN to? > waa > > > > Clint Anderson > Systems Engineer > "Freedom -- paint me a picture!" -- Burton Cummings > > > > On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 4:50 AM Zombiefly <xxxxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx > <mailto:xxxxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx>> wrote: > > This whole limited run thing got old, quickly > > On Mon, 22 Jul 2019, 19:29 Clint Anderson, <xxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx > <mailto:xxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx>> wrote: > > yep got there and it was still showing in stock > by the time the page refreshed it was gone > thinking of just selling the rest of my brainwaltzera vinyl as > it's probably at peak value now > > Clint Anderson > Systems Engineer > "Freedom -- paint me a picture!" -- Burton Cummings > > > > On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 11:35 AM Connor Higgins > <xxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx <mailto:xxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx>> > wrote: > > Annnnnnd it's gone! Just happened a second ago. :( > > On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 9:33 AM Paul Lloyd > <xxxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx <mailto:xxxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx>> wrote: > > Bleep have an exclusive violet vinyl version available > if you're quick. > It's bloody pricey though! > https://bleep.com/release/138050-brainwaltzera-alepoch-ep > > P. >