Re: Music trading scheme

["Matthew F. McCabe" <mmccabe@finleysound.com>]

Honestly, I think setting up someone as a go-between between traders 
unnecessarily complicates the process.  It's easy enough for any 
prospective trader to post a message to the list and go from them.

Just my opinion.

Kevin Cheli-Colando wrote:
> Over the last couple of days I've been listening to two cds that I just 
> received from members of this list and have been enjoying them quite a 
> bit.  What I was wondering was how many of us on this list have CDs of 
> music that we have created that we feel have never really circulated as 
> much as we might like?  And then I struck upon the idea of trying to 
> organize a one time (initially at least) trading circle here.
> 
> What I'm thinking is that everyone who wants to be involved would send a 
> message to the curator/director/whatever you call them (I will volunteer 
> but it will be after the holidays before anything actually starts to 
> happen) stating that they are interested, how many discs they want to 
> trade (and hence the number they will receive hopefully), and where 
> they're willing to ship them to (across oceans can get a tad pricey). We 
> could also possibly ask for a general genre so that no one gets stuck 
> with ambient guitar music they don't want :-)  (btw, that is humor, I am 
> an ambient guitarist much of the time).
> 
> I imagine that we will finally have a list of people who have said they 
> want to trade x number of discs and then I'll simply keep a tab and then 
> start to match people up and tell them where to send their discs and 
> what to expect from whom.
> 
> I don't know if this will get overwhelming or not (guess it depends on 
> how many people want to get in on it) but it seemed like a good way to 
> get some of this group's music circulating (I personally don't much care 
> to download 30+ minute songs and find I listen better if I have a hard 
> copy to move around from place to place).
> 
> Does this sound like a good idea to people and if so, does anyone want 
> to go in on it?
> 
> Kevin



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