Compared to http://www.mp3.com/303infinity (they've stopped posting the obscenen amout of $$$ this group has made) or http://www.mp3.com/bassic
Not really. (BTW, I stumbled onto Bassic's site looking for Ambient stuff, some of it's not bad) "M. Todd Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 08/15/2001 11:50:45 AM To: <313@hyperreal.org> cc: Subject: Re: [313] ANyone know about Finalscratch (maybe OT) Hmm, Despite what George Says http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/27/christian_bloch.html Christian seems to be doing just fine :) Cheers todd ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <313@hyperreal.org> Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 11:09 AM Subject: Re: [313] ANyone know about Finalscratch (maybe OT) > In theory - you're right. In practice - totally off. MP3.com promised to > offer something similar to what you speak of ("...think of what it will do > to artist exposure as well as profit margins..." with "...the > potential to sell hundreds of thousands or copies of a given track > worldwide > in digital format..." ) . Some have made a nice amount of change on MP3.com > and even got signed to record companies, etc. However, the remainder of > artists end up buried under the thousands of others. Cost to get started > with MP3.com is $0, cost to maintain your site and administer on MP3.com is > $0, and your chances of making a dime on MP3.com is about 0 as well. > > > > > > > jonathan morse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 08/15/2001 10:40:55 AM > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Kevin Conrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > <313@hyperreal.org> > cc: > Subject: Re: QRe: [313] ANyone know about Finalscratch (maybe OT) > > > indeed...imagine when you can downlaod a track for say $.50 or $1.00 > directly from a labels web site rather than pay $6 - $10 or more for the > 12" > which both the distributor and the shop have added their cost to. granted > it > puts the middlemen out of business but thats the breaks i guess. > > just think of what it will do to artist exposure as well as profit margins. > the up front cost of maintaining an FTP server is nothing compared to those > of pressing and distributing vinyl let alone the fact that there's the > potential to sell hundreds of thousands or copies of a given track > worldwide > in digital format rather than tens of thousands on vinyl. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]