RTP-area local music and culture

[Ryan Benjamin <ryanb824 AT gmail.com>]

The Blue Devils would not support the artist.

On 2/13/06, 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:
> > Being greedy to sell their own CDs of their own music that they wrote &
> > performed and (if they're on a small indie label) might well have also
> > paid to record, while they're on tour in a (probably gas-slurping) van,
> > sleeping on peoples' floors, eating shitty road food, having to either
> > burn up their vacation time, quit their jobs, or maintain the kind of
> > slacker jobs that allow them to take off for weeks at a time, getting
> > paid a hundred bucks apiece on a "good night" and twenty bucks (or
> > nothing) on a "bad night"? Greedy to charge more than $12 for a CD, when
> > the average retail price of a [non-loss-leader Best Buy-super-sale] CD
> > in the real world is like $16?
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> > Give me a fucking break, man. If they're selling the CD for $15 and you
> > know it's at CD Alley for $12, go fucking buy it for $12, but leave the
> > self-righteous attitude out of it. Yeesh. Is there any situation in your
> > world where the band's interests come first, before those of the fucking
> > 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 touring bands more than
> > their entitled percentage of the door when attendance is low, and yadda
> > yadda. Nobody's seriously questioning your dedication to the bands &
> > etc. Which is why I find it so bizarre that you find it so easy to
> > accuse bands of being "greedy" in this instance. If nothing else man,
> > fuck, let the market do the work--if the CD is in stock at the local
> > store for cheaper, and you know it, then you can buy it there.
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> > On the other hand, if you're not sure if the local store has it in
> > stock, then maybe that says something about the local store, but in any
> > case, no offense to the local store owners, but my allegiance is to the
> > band every time.
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> > p.p.s. Half the people I know wait & buy the CD at CD Alley or wherever
> > anyway, because they don't like carrying a CD around with them all night
> > at a show. Pockets never have grown to be CD-size, except for those
> > goddamn cargo pants, which I wore in middle school & don't plan to do so
> > 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 band if they are
> >>selling it for more than $12, and I see that at 506 from time to time.
> >>Again, the band is cutting out not one but two middle men (distributor
> >>and record store,) so for them to sell it higher than the local record
> >>store, then they are the ones being greedy.  I'd much rather support
> >>the record store in that case.
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