RTP-area local music and culture

[tommy gibson <tcgibson AT mindspring.com>]

I'm sure, if they got credit toward a community service project, they would.


Ryan Benjamin wrote:
> The Blue Devils would not support the artist.
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> 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:
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>>>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?
>>>
>>>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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