I don't think that's the real problem, as I can't see any more people in
Belfast buying Venetian Snares just becasue it's in HMV (although they
do have the v/vm aphex twin remixes in there, weird.........)
Try some different mail order companies, Rough Trade always seems to be
over priced and slow, for me anyway.
All the below are have been good to me in the past, plus are usually
very quick at delivering to belfast:
http://www.boomkat.com/
http://www.normanrecords.com/
http://www.warprecords.com/mart (warpmart now sells sells 50+ labels)
http://www.juno.co.uk
glenn
Roy Martin wrote:
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>From: "h0l -" <h0l211@hotmail.com>
>To: <idm@hyperreal.org>
>Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2002 12:02 AM
>Subject: [idm] grumpy warp tour curmudgeons + planet mu sales figures.
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>>It's up to the artists, I don't want to publish exact sales figures if
>>they'd rather keep it secret.
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>>But on average this year (last 12 months) cd albums have sold 800 copies.
>>Our best seller in last 12 months was The Cosmic Forces Of Mu which sold
>>2217 copies worldwide. just over 12 months ago the Slag Boom remixes cd
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>did
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>>very well at almost 3000 copies.
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>>The average earnings of a Planet Mu artist (from sales royalties, not
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>their
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>>real jobs obviously) is £800 per album ($1190) which is the royalties on
>>1000 sales. But I usually give them an advance of more than that.
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>Maybe some piracy, but I think bad distribution also plays a significant
>part. Here in Belfast it's a pain to get anything decent by any other means
>except mail order. And I've had bad experiences in that field (Sister Ray /
>Rough Trade) - so if people can't get the product they'll turn to
>downloading it.
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>I prefer an original copy but a lot of material is too tricky to find. Also,
>some labels don't seem to press enough copies - Skam being a good example of
>this IMO.
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