RTP-area local music and culture

["Doctor Oakroot" <doctor AT doctoroakroot.com>]

I get $.65 for each sale at I-tunes. (I believe the sale price is $.99)

Bo Williams wrote:
> 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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