[NewMusic] record stores and the wave of the future (sucks)

[Jacob Lindsay]

Wake me up when everyone has left their physical
bodies and have downloaded themselves onto software.



--- Praemedia <praemedia at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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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> > > NewMusic at music.mills.edu
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> > >
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > B~
> > www.cypod.co.nr
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> 
> 
> 
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Jacob Lindsay
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