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<META content=text/html;charset=iso-8859-1 http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content='"MSHTML 4.72.3110.7"' name=GENERATOR> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>Ha! Beat ya to it! My group, Future Perfect, did just that for our second CD release- recorded them at home direct to DAT, borrowed a friends CD burner and went to town copying them. We got a deal on the white/blue bulk CD-r's and each one has original artwork on the CD itself. Designed the printing at home, and took it to a local printer- cost $35 for the printing. We numbered each one, and even shrinkwrapped 'em- total cost to us, including DAT tape, printing, CD-r's was less than $250. Our first CD cost us with printing and studio time over $5000. Guess which one sells more...</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2></FONT><FONT size=2>We sell our CD's at gigs for $15 (no one needs to know what it cost us to make, besides, the quality of the recording-and hopefully the music- is what they are paying for). We also get a few sales via our website, but most of them are at shows. More power to ya- the price of CD duplication is crazy these days, and any way we can save money is more money we can use to buy the latest looping toys.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>This is also a quick way of getting your music out into the world-it took us about 5 days, start to finish, as opposed to the year and a half for our first CD.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Dave Eichenberger</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT><FONT color=#000000 size=2>********************************************************************* <BR>'Future Perfect' - art music - visit our website at:<BR><A href="http://home1.gte.net/artmusic/">http://home1.gte.net/artmusic/</A><BR> </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2><BR><BR></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #000000 solid 2px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px"></FONT>for my own releases, since i know that there is <I>limited audience</I>for what i do, i'm planning on burning them myself, hand-painting the insert j-cards, & having numbered limited editions (ala steve roach dream circle, or zoviet france, or crash worship, or whoever else), and selling them at gigs or on the net for $10. this is not to be pretentious, but to be punk rock. no label, no middleman, no crap. <BR>i'll be treating these cd's like t-shirts or other merchandise, & what touring (or non-touring) band doesn't know that you make more $ from merch than you get paid by the club? <BR>yes, my overhead is low. yes, i'm making profit per unit. but it's my music & if you are willing to shell out $10 after hearing the band, i think you'll find the cd's very nice. <BR>i don't think making a couple of $ playing fun, strange, left-feild music is a bad thing. <P>the band that i'm a sideman in sells their cd's for usually 14.99 at most stores, list 16.99 or whatever. they sell enough of them to keep putting more out, so i guess that's a fair price, too. <P>i paid 17.99 for halycon days by roach/kent/newby & i think it's worth more. <P>it's all subjectivity bobdog </P></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML> </html>