On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, Digital Cutup Lounge wrote:
quoted 7 lines vis-you wrote:> vis-you wrote:
>
> >to sell to, who later signed in order to make it "big." They made less money
> >selling a hundred thousand cds through a label than when they just sold
> >500-1000 themselves to their fans.
>
> This has been true of a couple of my friends as well...
This may be true, but on the other hand 99,000 other people got to hear
the record, which is one of the major incentives to go with a bigger label
in the first place. Bigger label=bigger distribution.
-rob
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