RTP-area local music and culture

[grady <grady AT ibiblio.org>]

By buying merch from them at the club after you've bought a ticket to 
see them live. You can also just hand them $10, although most of them 
would probably be flummoxed by this move. Then again, lately I seem to 
find myself wanting to buy merch from an unattended table, so I usually 
take what I want & stick the money into the plastic bin with the rest of 
the band's merch that's always sitting behind the table. When you do it 
that way, you can stick as much in there as you want ;-)

One would hope that buying CDs direct from the label would result in 
more money for the artist, but it's likely that many contracts don't 
differentiate between various retail outlets (except in the case of 
co-op advertising deals with various retailers, in which the label uses 
the artist's money to buy preferential placement  on those displays at 
the ends of the shelves or whatever), so it's possible that buying 
direct from the label just gives the label a slightly larger % of the 
income. Although if you're talking about an indie label, giving them an 
extra buck is probably going to benefit the artists on the label one way 
or another anyway, indirectly, if only by keeping the label a viable 
concern.

In any case, there is no "standard" label contract, so it's hard to 
predict what's going to net the artist the most $$, other than that it's 
a safe bet that the margin on those $10 - $15 t-shirts is a wee bit 
higher than on the CDs.

Sarah Freeman wrote:
> by buying tickets to see them live. s
>
>
> On Feb 13, 2006, at 1:34 AM, tommy gibson wrote:
>
> Thanks to the web, most recordings can be bought directly from record
> label e-commerce sites.
> These web stores are in addition to the ubiquitous Amazon.com and
> TowerRecords.com.
> There are Best Buys on every corner and - [if you're lucky] - an
> independent record store in [almost]
> every large city/town.  What's the best way to purchase music so that
> the artist gets the greatest benefit?
>
>
> -tg