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

[Matt Davignon]

Part of me would love to see that go ($1000 for 1000cds), and part of
me knows something would be lost.

It was never a great system, but the idea that *someone* had to
believe in a new record enough to invest over $1000 to release it to
the public has served as a very rudimentary quality filter. I remember
what mp3.com turned to where there was no editing mechanism for what
people "released" online.

Personally, I think a good system would be to require musicians to
listen to their cd master from beginning to end every day for 3 months
before they're allowed to release it.

Matt

On 6/4/07, David Slusser <slusser at pixar.com> 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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