--- "Villani, Adam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This still accomplishes some promotional effect. I can
> think of several
> promo CDs I've bought out of used bins that have then led
> to my purchase of
> new CDs later by the same artist. Considering that the
> marginal cost of
> manufacturing a single CD is pretty small, this looks like
> a win-win-win-win
> situation for artist, record company, record store, and
> consumer, if the
> promo CD is good enough to get me hooked on the artist.
Oh, Yes! They have SOME use. I've done the same kind of
shopping. I especially like finding CDs from people that I
already like and finding them ridiculously cheap, because
the store folks hadn't the faintest idea who they were. A
lot of early "Blue Note" recordings were found exactly that
way. Just this week I found, among others, a Pharaoh Sanders
and a Henry Threadgill CD for 5 bucks each!
I guess I'm just surprised that these chain "used" CD stores
actually stay open - the ones that stick the "jazz" and "new
age" CDs together - because of the huge amount of dreck that
they get of "the next big thing". Have you ever walked into
one of these used places and said, "Oh my god, there's so
much to choose from - I can't pick." For me: not very often,
if at all.
I'm not a good judge of these things tho...I remember
thinking, "Hootie and the Blowfish? Yeah, right...It'll
never fly..." :o A friend of mine used to hold up a
randomly picked record in a shop and say, "Someone out there
thinks that THIS is one of the greatest records ever made."
After seeing eBay, I'm inclined to believe him now.
>
>
> Umm, that's only 8 records.
Yes, I find that odd.
Rod
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