Hi,
quoted 2 lines from Japan and pay about $4-5 a piece. There are probably
>from Japan and pay about $4-5 a piece. There are probably
>a handful of labels that are even remotely reasonable in pricing.
Well I can respect your argument from the consumer viewpoint but being a
small label owner I can also respect the label's viewpoint and i'd just
like to point out that it's not the label's charging the high prices but a
combination of things like shipping costs, the distributor markup and then
the retailer mark-up. Let's take an example of CD X: CD X manufacturing
costs were $2.10 US what do you think is a reasonable wholesale price for
Label Y to charge? (..remembering they have to pay the artist (recoup the
advance)) and pay for any advertising or promotion of said CD X such as a
launch, etc. Cover cost of running a web site which for a small label is
critical nowadays and so on.
Also remember there is then the shipping costs (for an o/s label) these are
usually quite high and then the distributor markup which with the ones i've
dealt with varies from 30 to 50% of wholesale cost AND THEN the retailer
mark-up which again is anywhere from 30-50% mark-up on the distributor sale
price. Factor that in and how much do you think the label is actually
making?? Stuff-all!! So the label see's very little of the final retail
sale price and can't afford to release the next release in any numbers
larger than 500 or so.
So you want to buy experimental electronic music cheap?! Get off your lazy
arses and support the labels directly by buying their CD's from them
directly via their web sites!!
I'll be getting together a list of independently run electronic music
labels that sell there product through their web site, which i'll be
posting to the idm/ambient lists on compilation.
So anyone who runs a label and wants to be included in the list email me
privately, thanks.
Regards,
John
http://aural-industries.com.au/
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