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- From: tommy Gibson <tcgibson AT mindspring.com>
- To: RTP-area local music and culture <ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: best way to support artists?
- Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 15:28:44 -0500
Mr. Hepler,
Allow me to repeat my question ... How 'bout them Blue
Devils, eh?
James Hepler wrote:
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 alsopaid to record, while they're on tour in a
(probably gas-slurping) van,sleeping on peoples' floors, eating shitty road
food, having to eitherburn up their vacation time, quit their jobs, or
maintain the kind ofslacker jobs that allow them to take off for weeks
at a time, gettingpaid a hundred bucks apiece on a "good night" and
twenty bucks (ornothing) on a "bad night"? Greedy to charge more
than $12 for a CD, whenthe average retail price of a [non-loss-leader
Best Buy-super-sale] CDin the real world is like $16?
Give me a fucking break, man. If they're selling
the CD for $15 and youknow it's at CD Alley for $12, go fucking buy it
for $12, but leave theself-righteous attitude out of it. Yeesh. Is there
any situation in yourworld where the band's interests come first,
before those of the fuckingCD distributors even, for chrissake?
Ross
p.s. Yes, we're all aware that you often pay
touring bands more thantheir entitled percentage of the door when
attendance is low, and yaddayadda. Nobody's seriously questioning your
dedication to the bands &etc. Which is why I find it so bizarre that you
find it so easy toaccuse 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 localstore 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 instock, then maybe that says something about the
local store, but in anycase, no offense to the local store owners, but my
allegiance is to theband every time.
p.p.s. Half the people I know wait & buy the CD at
CD Alley or whereveranyway, because they don't like carrying a CD
around with them all nightat a show. Pockets never have grown to be CD-size,
except for thosegoddamn cargo pants, which I wore in middle school
& don't plan to do soagain.
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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