[NewMusic] record stores

[Praemedia]

Especially considering that Edgetone no longer uses a
distributer, Matt is ONLY talking about local and
indie record stores. 

I am going to fetishize compact discs for the rest of
my born days, but people really need to face the fact
that online sales are going to the primary force in
the near future. compact discs will continue as a
specialty market, just as vinyl has, but that old
"pressing the flesh" routine is going to work less and
less as time goes on. I would venture to say that
there is a possibilty that online marketing is already
a better way to get the word out (in my recent
experiences) than stuffint he car full of cds and
making the weekend rounds to the indie shops....

My only sales these days come from my own online
record shop and from Amazon. Eventually we'll be
moving to more digital sales and I'll see how that
goes, but most artists i know are more likely to see a
check from emusic and a bunch of returns of physical
product from retail/wholesale outlets.

lance

--- Cypod <cypod25 at gmail.com> wrote:

> In the current fake science podcast they have an
> interview with Booka
> Shade, who talk about their great relationship with
> record stores.
> Record store ownership is a tough business to make
> it in, and the only
> way to succeed is to have awsome unique content,
> think Aquarius
> records in the mission. So your indie cd wont ever
> be on the shelves
> at tower, go down to your local shops, press the
> flesh and try to get
> your cd's on consignment. Where better to start than
> your own
> neighborhood.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 4/10/07, Matt Davignon <mattdavignon at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On 4/10/07, Cypod <cypod25 at gmail.com> was like:
> >
> > > Take those cd's over to your local music store,
> get them on the shelves, do
> > > an in store performance, promote the heck out of
> it, get people to show up
> > > and buy it. But don't tell them that you also
> have some digital distribution
> > > thats selling it out as singles.
> >
> > That's funny you should mention that - I think
> I've sold a single cd
> > from a record store in the past 3 years, even with
> my promotional
> > stickers! (They included a description of the
> music and a blurb from
> > the Wire review.)
> >
> > Strangely, about 1/2 of my cd sales have been
> mail-order to Europe
> > (says Rent, who sells them on Edgetone). Still
> fairly modest, but hard
> > to predict.
> >
> > Matt
> > _______________________________________________
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> >
> 
> 
> -- 
> B~
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