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why samplers are cheap

>At 10:53 PM 5/30/2003, Mark Hamburg wrote:
>>on 5/30/03 6:12 PM, Kim Flint at kflint@loopers-delight.com wrote:
>>
>>>  Non-musicians don't care very much what instruments are used or
>>>  how they are played, they care about the musical result they hear and
>>>  whether they like that or not.
>>
>>Why did Windham Hill put out Piano Sampler albums and Guitar Sampler 
>albums
>
>Did they sell many? I usually see cds like that in the bargain bin 
>at the store. People don't buy them then either. Why did they put 
>them out? You got me. I have no idea.

I think the marketing idea is to keep them cheap so the public ends 
up buing the CDs of the tracks they like... its like a payed demo :-)

Usually the artists dont charge for the inclusion because its only 
one song and they are interested in appearing somewhere in a 
context...
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