Saw the Laika & the Cosmonauts gig last night. Good. They're changing their style a bit, not so much straight surf, even a couple of ska songs. also the theme from mission impossible, but no theme from hawaii five-oh :-( but ANYWAYS they were selling cd's so I asked the guy what the system is. he says that (as we all know) when you buy the cd in the shop, the band only gets royalties, and it ain't much. those numbers I posted here said about 5 or 6 marks, that's about one USA dollar, on a cd that retails for 129 mk that's a bit over 20 dollars. but if you buy the cd at the gig, their deal with their record company is they split it 50-50, so the cd at the gig is 100 marks 16 dollars but the band gets half. and the deal is the same with t-shirts, a 50-50 split. fred
