Well its also a case of the fact that they generally have much more material than they can afford to release and so these tracks could be given an mp3 only release (whether for a nominal fee or for free) I think using this technology as a positive promotional tool for small labels will be cool - they get to release as much stuff as they want and can make a name for themselves based on the strength of their material rather than the quality of their distribution or how well they manage to get their releases promoted.
" lots of people who think of themselves as underground music anarchists try and justify the whole thing to themselves by saying its only britney spears and the five majors that suffer. that's bulls***t." well ive certainly seen a number of small labels who either: a) encourage people to download their stuff as a 'try before you buy' thing. b) do not mind that there are people who download and then don't buy. I guess the reason behind this is these people are music fans rather than business people and they realise most of the people who listen to their stuff are music fans too - they buy as much as they can afford but they cant afford everything. :-----Original Message----- :From: Kent williams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] :Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 1:48 PM :To: Neil Wallace :Cc: 'Langsman, Marc'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 313@hyperreal.org :Subject: RE: [313] Final Scratch - thoughts... : :Maybe. If you can sell all 500 copies! : :On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Neil Wallace wrote: :> :> And knowing people that run small label that can only afford to press :> around 500 copies of a release I'm sure they'd be more than happy that :> their release could reach a much larger audience. :> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
