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

[Damon Smith]

I think so. I made a data  cdr with my first three titles in mp3 
format, cover jpegs and liner notes and a bonus video mp4 of Kowald and 
I duo. I sold all of them, I guess I need to make more.

Damon


On Jun 4, 2007, at 3:47 PM, David Slusser wrote:

> 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.
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