[NewMusic] [BA-NEWMUS:50] Re: 21 Brand

[David Slusser]

I was going to get around to asking this question:
if labels go to download only, and CD stampers
continue with $1000/1000CDs only, are CDrs
going to be accepted (or better accepted) as
product from independents/musicians?

I imagine until car and home stereo CD players
crap out, people will be burning their own
CDrs of the stuff they download.  My kids share
their mp3s with friends by burning CDs.

On Jun 4, 2007, at 3:27 PM, Damon Smith wrote:
> Well, I am into Günter Christmann's cdrs, his homemade releases are
> amazing - more like artists multiples (
> http://efi.group.shef.ac.uk/labels/explico/explico14.html &
> http://efi.group.shef.ac.uk/labels/explico/explic10.html) . The Cdr we
> made of Triple D sold out pretty quickly.
> I was awaiting the new Clean Feed albums appearance on emusic (
> http://www.cleanfeed-records.com ) just as much as any other release.
> It is just like any other format. the music has to be good and well
> presented.
>
> On Jun 4, 2007, at 12:56 PM, Jacob Lindsay wrote:
>> I agree with Weasel here.  I have to say, that as much
>> as I respect the DIY aspect of things, I really am not
>> interested in checking out recordings put out on the
>> internet, on CDRs with shitty packaging, etc.  My
>> feeling being that if the music is not good enough to
>> put in the effort to make a professional looking
>> product then it is probably not worth my time or money
>> to check out.
>>
>> --- weasel walter <weaselw at juno.com> wrote:
>>> i still think there's a formal discipline to
>>> releasing physical product
>>> that does help filter out some chaff. if all anybody
>>> has to do is upload
>>> any old shit to a server and start selling it, the
>>> holes in the sieve
>>> disappear. there's way too much recorded music
>>> available for most people
>>> to seriously deal with.