look it's cool if you don't want to agree, but I think it's safe to say I
do have a rather informed opinion on this. Yes it's bias towards a label
point of view, but I have been doing this for 11 years now (and have
worked at retail, at distributor, and at label level) and do know the
financial realities of it all. It is a weightly system and maybe the
internet will take some of that off, but I'm still skeptical. My workload
has already increased with the amount of .com compannies calling, and
more work means I have to pay more people. Simple economics. I wish it
was as easy as everyone just magically knowing when a new record comes
out.
Simply...production and time do factor into a cost. It's like saying you
should only pay $1 to see a movie because a studio only needs to pay for
it's film. It don't work that way.
Finally....Rjyan had some good points. You can shuffle around the system
all you want but it just means money saved one place usually means
expenses added somewhere else and it all just levels out in the end with
maybe a couple dollars in savings when all the dust settles.
Jeff
quoted 11 lines Just to shed some light on the breakdown of a list price....>> Just to shed some light on the breakdown of a list price....
>>
>> -I set domestic CD lists prices as $14.99 not $16.99
>> -yes, it does cost $1-$2 in production cost depending on the packaging.
>> There is also the recording fees, studio costs, mastering, etc...
>
>This is bullshit. All the fees that you are using to justify have
>nothing to do with the actual cost if a record. Your 15 dollar CD costs
>about 9-11 dollars from BMG or Sony wholesale, which means that a label
>is seeing about 5 dollars per releases(or somewhere in the area, I have
>not worked on that side of the business.)
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