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Well, it is kind of depressing, a little bit.
In LA, lots of the great stores closed... aarons, tower, hear music (bought by starbucks)... leaves you basically with virgin, best buy, and borders...
None of those places even stocks my genre, so, what good would a cd do me anyway?
I just spent $300 bucks getting a tune mastered by the top cat in the uk... I guess that was a waste of money, considering probably the only person who can hear the difference between the mastered version and the unmastered version is me, and then only if i play back the original 96khz file on the monitors it was mixed on.
Certainly there is no way you could catch it on myspace or streaming or download...
There is ONE thing i would like to say that bothers me about downloads, though.
Back in the days of vinyl, you could order, say, 1k vinyls, ship them to the distributor, and call in 90 days or so and say, hey, i sent you 1k units, i've got the shipping receipt right here, where's my money?
Now, though, you upload a track to a site... how in the world can you track the actual number of downloads the site sells?
I mean, seems to me they can just pull an arbitrary number out of the sky and unless you go and see their billing records, you can never tell for sure...
Another way for the musician to get screwed? looks like it.
We released a tune that was a mini-hit and we haven't received a penny on it... not one cent... despite the fact that it can be downloaded everywhere...
Who's got time / money to chase down these sites?
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