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  • From: Bo Williams <bo AT mrboboto.com>
  • To: RTP-area local music and culture <ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: Thank yr local CD retailer
  • Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 10:05:47 -0400

Here's a somewhat related question- how much of a cut does the label/artist get from Apple Music Store purchases (indie labels, not majors)? I'd imagine it's a good bit better than the regular distribution route.

Bo

grady wrote:

Ha! I will confess that on the day Ray Charles died (or the day they announced his death, at least), on my way home from work I made the snap-decision to get that 4-CD "Birth of Soul" box-set & pulled into the Best Buy parking lot.

Of the umpty-zillion Ray Charles releases, a relatively large number of which are available on CD, Best Buy had exactly 2, both single-disc best-ofs.

If I bought more major-label pop, maybe I too would be lured by the bright lights and sub-$10 prices, but generally speaking, when I have occasionally misspent some time in the Best Buy CD racks, I haven't really found that much I want, and my tastes aren't even that weird.

So is there a happy feel-good ending to this story? Fuck no. I bought the goddamn Ray Charles box set at Borders, and most of the music I buy lately I order over the internet.

Ross "at least I'm supporting an independent music retailer, albeit in Chicago" Grady

Bo Williams wrote:

For context:

The "Why Best Buy Sucks" thread

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&c2coff=1&safe=off&threadm=Pine.A41.3.95.961217092609.32192A-100000%40login2.isis.unc.edu&rnum=3&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Dbest%2Bbuy%2Bbo%2Balt.music.chapel-hill%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26c2coff%3D1%26safe%3Doff%26selm%3DPine.A41.3.95.961217092609.32192A-100000%2540login2.isis.unc.edu%26rnum%3D3



Man, I was such a little polemic back then! Now I'm soft and squishy.


Bo

grady wrote:

I actually wasn't making a stink, just tweaking Hepler, which is
sort of de rigeur around here anyway.

However, I have to say that if you got it for under $10, then you
were paying very little over wholesale, and it's maybe a tiny bit hypocritical for you to post a really long post admonishing local clubgoers to be willing to pay more at the door of your club, *and*
pleading with them to occasionally drink something other than PBR,
and then turn around & say "it's hard to continually over-pay to
support the underdog."

I mean, I can't believe you charge $1.50 or $2 for PBR when I can
get that shit for fifty cents at the Teeter, and keep it in my car,
and slip out the door between bands and drink outside. How much
longer do you expect me to pay your ridiculous music-industry
markups?

xo

Ross

p.s. don't shell out for the PJ Harvey without listening to it
first - "best album from her in a while" still doesn't mean it
comes anywhere near "Rid of Me."

Local 506 wrote:

But more importantly, I wanted to mention where I bought the
disc, since Ross made a stink about it. I bought it at Best Buy
for under $10, along with 3 other albums I wouldn't have bought
except for the fact that they were also under ten dollars (Franz
Ferdinand, Modest Mouse, Coheed and Cambria.)

I've said it before, and I'll say it again - when music falls
below the ten dollar mark, it becomes an impulse purchase. I
can easily think of three records I'd rather have than the three
above (PJ Harvey, Mission of Burma, AC Newman come to mind) -
yet, there's something compelling about spending less.

Nothing against CD Alley or any of the other indy shops, but eventually price does matter...and the music industry as a whole
will need to address this, because it's hard to continually
over-pay to support the underdog.

glenn



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