RTP-area local music and culture

[James Hepler <jameshepler AT yahoo.com>]

Grady has a good point.  We went to Ohio for a three
day weekend, and we paid over $200 in gas alone. 
You'd have to sell a lot of $15 CD's to break even on
that.

--- grady <grady AT ibiblio.org> 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?
> 
> 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?
> 
> Ross
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> Glenn Boothe / Local 506 wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> -- ch-scene: the list that mirrors
> alt.music.chapel-hill --
> http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/ch-scene
> 


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