Comments on: Band Refuses To Sell Their Album http://www.musicreview.co.za/2010/02/07/band-refuses-to-sell-their-albums/ Showcasing Music and Electronic Entertainment Since 2005 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:10:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2 By: NielDLR http://www.musicreview.co.za/2010/02/07/band-refuses-to-sell-their-albums/comment-page-1/#comment-2800 NielDLR Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:18:07 +0000 http://www.musicreview.co.za/?p=2025#comment-2800 Ah, but Joe, the law of large numbers allows you to circumvent that horrible figure. Having your product digitally available opens it up to 1,733,993,741 people (according to http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm) And having a digital product allows you to have very low overhead costs: no cd manufacturing, no printing, ridiculous profit markups etc. Therefore for each mp3 you sell you get more bang for your buck. It's actually ridiculous how, for instance iTunes charges $0.99 for a song. It's actually way overpriced: therefore you can get more money, by creating your own digital store selling it at the same price. I'm going to use the overused Radiohead example again: http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/radiohead_make_10_million_from_in_rainbows.html But alas, I'm not here to persuade you, it seems you already made up your mind. Good luck trying to sell CDs or the lack thereof. Ah, but Joe, the law of large numbers allows you to circumvent that horrible figure. Having your product digitally available opens it up to 1,733,993,741 people (according to http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm)

And having a digital product allows you to have very low overhead costs: no cd manufacturing, no printing, ridiculous profit markups etc. Therefore for each mp3 you sell you get more bang for your buck. It’s actually ridiculous how, for instance iTunes charges $0.99 for a song. It’s actually way overpriced: therefore you can get more money, by creating your own digital store selling it at the same price. I’m going to use the overused Radiohead example again: http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/radiohead_make_10_million_from_in_rainbows.html

But alas, I’m not here to persuade you, it seems you already made up your mind. Good luck trying to sell CDs or the lack thereof.

]]> By: Jared Brandt http://www.musicreview.co.za/2010/02/07/band-refuses-to-sell-their-albums/comment-page-1/#comment-2775 Jared Brandt Fri, 19 Feb 2010 22:31:11 +0000 http://www.musicreview.co.za/?p=2025#comment-2775 Fail, Silly, Ridiculous?? These are the claims against our anti-piracy stance. According to the most recent IFPI reports, 95% of all digital goods are pirated, not purchased. This is consistent with our marketing data. This means that anyone selling digital products--Music/Movies/Software/Books/etc is operating a business with effectively a 95% Income Tax. Waiting for a better market doesn't seem silly or ridiculous to Brandt Morain. -Jared Fail, Silly, Ridiculous?? These are the claims against our anti-piracy stance.

According to the most recent IFPI reports, 95% of all digital goods are pirated, not purchased.
This is consistent with our marketing data.

This means that anyone selling digital products–Music/Movies/Software/Books/etc
is operating a business with effectively a 95% Income Tax.

Waiting for a better market doesn’t seem silly or ridiculous to Brandt Morain.

-Jared

]]> By: Joe http://www.musicreview.co.za/2010/02/07/band-refuses-to-sell-their-albums/comment-page-1/#comment-2744 Joe Tue, 16 Feb 2010 12:26:24 +0000 http://www.musicreview.co.za/?p=2025#comment-2744 This is a ridiculous notion. There is no such thing as piracy when it comes to music. You are privileged that I listen to you as much as I'm privileged to be able to listen to you. If I really enjoy your music I will feel compelled to visit your website and make a donation or buy merchandise. I will go to your gigs and concerts and tell all my friends how cool you are. Your album or mp3's/flac's are disposable and essentially advertisement for the product which is you. Get with the program! This is a ridiculous notion. There is no such thing as piracy when it comes to music. You are privileged that I listen to you as much as I’m privileged to be able to listen to you. If I really enjoy your music I will feel compelled to visit your website and make a donation or buy merchandise. I will go to your gigs and concerts and tell all my friends how cool you are. Your album or mp3′s/flac’s are disposable and essentially advertisement for the product which is you. Get with the program!

]]> By: NielDLR http://www.musicreview.co.za/2010/02/07/band-refuses-to-sell-their-albums/comment-page-1/#comment-2685 NielDLR Sun, 07 Feb 2010 15:20:11 +0000 http://www.musicreview.co.za/?p=2025#comment-2685 This is just silly. Good luck on not selling any more albums. Which makes this even more sad is, that apparently the album is supposedly "good" and they're just shooting themselves in the foot from further sales. This "campaign" will achieve nothing, perhaps just a few laughs. This is just silly. Good luck on not selling any more albums. Which makes this even more sad is, that apparently the album is supposedly “good” and they’re just shooting themselves in the foot from further sales. This “campaign” will achieve nothing, perhaps just a few laughs.

]]> By: Simon http://www.musicreview.co.za/2010/02/07/band-refuses-to-sell-their-albums/comment-page-1/#comment-2684 Simon Sun, 07 Feb 2010 15:07:43 +0000 http://www.musicreview.co.za/?p=2025#comment-2684 It's already "out there". They won't get any money from the people who DID want to buy their album... Fail? It’s already “out there”. They won’t get any money from the people who DID want to buy their album… Fail?

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