best way to support artists?
tommy Gibson
tcgibson at mindspring.com
Sun Mar 12 15:28:44 EST 2006
Mr. Hepler,
Allow me to repeat my question ... How 'bout them Blue Devils, eh?
James Hepler wrote:
> Fuck those guys.
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> --- tommy gibson <tcgibson at mindspring.com> wrote:
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>>Whoa!
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>>Uh ... so .... how 'bout them Blue Devils, eh?
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>>grady wrote:
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>>>Being greedy to sell their own CDs of their own
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>>music that they wrote &
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>>>performed and (if they're on a small indie label)
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>>might well have also
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>>>paid to record, while they're on tour in a
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>>(probably gas-slurping) van,
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>>>sleeping on peoples' floors, eating shitty road
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>>food, having to either
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>>>burn up their vacation time, quit their jobs, or
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>>maintain the kind of
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>>>slacker jobs that allow them to take off for weeks
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>>at a time, getting
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>>>paid a hundred bucks apiece on a "good night" and
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>>twenty bucks (or
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>>>nothing) on a "bad night"? Greedy to charge more
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>>than $12 for a CD, when
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>>>the average retail price of a [non-loss-leader
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>>Best Buy-super-sale] CD
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>>>in the real world is like $16?
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>>>Give me a fucking break, man. If they're selling
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>>the CD for $15 and you
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>>>know it's at CD Alley for $12, go fucking buy it
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>>for $12, but leave the
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>>>self-righteous attitude out of it. Yeesh. Is there
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>>any situation in your
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>>>world where the band's interests come first,
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>>before those of the fucking
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>>>CD distributors even, for chrissake?
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>>>Ross
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>>>p.s. Yes, we're all aware that you often pay
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>>touring bands more than
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>>>their entitled percentage of the door when
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>>attendance is low, and yadda
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>>>yadda. Nobody's seriously questioning your
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>>dedication to the bands &
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>>>etc. Which is why I find it so bizarre that you
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>>find it so easy to
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>>>accuse bands of being "greedy" in this instance.
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>>If nothing else man,
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>>>fuck, let the market do the work--if the CD is in
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>>stock at the local
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>>>store for cheaper, and you know it, then you can
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>>buy it there.
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>>>On the other hand, if you're not sure if the local
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>>store has it in
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>>>stock, then maybe that says something about the
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>>local store, but in any
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>>>case, no offense to the local store owners, but my
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>>allegiance is to the
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>>>band every time.
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>>>p.p.s. Half the people I know wait & buy the CD at
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>>CD Alley or wherever
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>>>anyway, because they don't like carrying a CD
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>>around with them all night
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>>>at a show. Pockets never have grown to be CD-size,
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>>except for those
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>>>goddamn cargo pants, which I wore in middle school
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>>& don't plan to do so
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>>>again.
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>>>Glenn Boothe / Local 506 wrote:
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>>>
>>>>Back to your A and B, I would NOT buy a CD from a
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>>band if they are
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>>>>selling it for more than $12, and I see that at
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>>506 from time to time.
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>>>>Again, the band is cutting out not one but two
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>>middle men (distributor
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>>>>and record store,) so for them to sell it higher
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>>than the local record
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>>>>store, then they are the ones being greedy. I'd
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>>much rather support
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>>>>the record store in that case.
>>>
>>>
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