[NewMusic] record stores

[amar at ptank.com]

Interestingly, my primary sales these days (few as they are, thanks for
your lack of support, folks ;) are exactly from Streetlight in Santa Cruz
and digital downloads, the opposite ends of the spectrum under discussion.

So in other words, I agree with both points: digital distribution becoming
more central, and making friends at your local record store.

  -Amar




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> 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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