[NewMusic] record stores

[Matt Davignon]

You're right, Edgetone doesn't deal with a distributer, but seeing how
my stuff does in local stores, I now understand why.

For the record, I have cd's for sale at Aquarius and both Amoeba's. At
Berkeley Amoeba, Jim Kaiser put my cd on the top 'featured' shelf for
a few weeks. Aquarius had my wire review on the front of "Bwoo" while
it was there.

I'm not complaining about the behavior of the record stores. Not
complaining at all really. It's just that record stores are not where
my discs are selling. Instead they sell in Europe, where someone will
buy it after reading an online review.

Maybe I'm part of the problem too. When buying local cd's, I usually
wait for the musician to have a show so I can buy them directly.

BTW, Edgetone might now deal with record store distributors anymore,
but they just signed up with IODA for more extensive online
distribution.

Matt

On 4/11/07, 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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