RTP-area local music and culture

[James Hepler <jameshepler AT yahoo.com>]

Fuck those guys.

--- tommy gibson <tcgibson AT mindspring.com> wrote:

> Whoa!
> 
> Uh ... so .... how 'bout them Blue Devils, eh?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 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?
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> > 
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