RE: FLUXLIST: Promo/Used CD question

2000-05-19 Thread Villani, Adam
Heiko R. said: > > > > among others, Einstuerzende Neubauten's F.M. Einheit. > > > > > > > any released work with fmeinheit? > > > > Yeah, I know they had a disc together called "Merry > Christmas." Lots of > > Btw, they are back on stage, without fm, who left the bauten > some years ago.

RE: FLUXLIST: Promo/Used CD question

2000-05-18 Thread Heiko Recktenwald
> > > among others, Einstuerzende Neubauten's F.M. Einheit. > > > > > any released work with fmeinheit? > > Yeah, I know they had a disc together called "Merry Christmas." Lots of Btw, they are back on stage, without fm, who left the bauten some years ago.

Re: FLUXLIST: Promo/Used CD question

2000-05-18 Thread Heiko Recktenwald
> I remember Garth Brooks tried unsuccessfully to block stores from selling > used copies of his CD's, using similar arguments as presented in the MP3 > debates. Yeah, I was waiting for this. Was this campaign only one artist ? Wasnt there a slogan ? Like "copy kills music" now, against CD burn

RE: FLUXLIST: Promo/Used CD question

2000-05-18 Thread Rod Stasick
--- "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

RE: FLUXLIST: Promo/Used CD question

2000-05-18 Thread Villani, Adam
> > Peter Brotzmann's son Caspar has worked with, > > among others, Einstuerzende Neubauten's F.M. Einheit. > > > any released work with fmeinheit? Yeah, I know they had a disc together called "Merry Christmas." Lots of distortion and metal and that sort of thing. They performed together a

Re: FLUXLIST: Promo/Used CD question

2000-05-17 Thread Lord Hasenpfeffer
> even though I think I'm paying too much to the wrong people. There's no doubt about that if you buy CDs at major chain stores. I avoid them like the plague. It costs less than US$2.00 to make a CD (and that's an old figure) yet they sell them for US$15.99. I know the artist(s) aren't getting

RE: FLUXLIST: Promo/Used CD question

2000-05-17 Thread Ceyda Karamürsel (CUSTOMER TECH-Uzm.)
> Peter Brotzmann's son Caspar has worked with, > among others, Einstuerzende Neubauten's F.M. Einheit. > any released work with fmeinheit?

Re: FLUXLIST: Promo/Used CD question

2000-05-17 Thread { brad brace }
I used to get free promo CDs at work. Well, it still happens a little... It was delightful: the CDs that no one else reviewed, wanted, or even listened-to-once appeared in the company 'free-bin.' Inevitably they were "just what I wanted:" usually avant-jazz/experimental. I have a great collectio

Re: FLUXLIST: Promo/Used CD question

2000-05-17 Thread Rod Stasick
Alex: When I owned a "subversive" CD/Music store a few years ago, many of the BIG record chains complained about the sale of "used" CDs and tried like crazy to ban others (read: "independents") from selling them. I even had the easy-"jazz" guitarist Jonathan Butler (thereafter known as "Butthole"

RE: FLUXLIST: Promo/Used CD question

2000-05-17 Thread Villani, Adam
> Promos by the dozens would come during the week. 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

Re: FLUXLIST: Promo/Used CD question

2000-05-17 Thread Carol Starr
hi alex, i know from first hand experience from having been a dj and working at a radio station that cd's are given away in large numbers and i have alot of them. music companies send out anywhere from one to twenty cd's for promotional purposes all with a hole punched in the cover and stating th

Re: FLUXLIST: Promo/Used CD question

2000-05-17 Thread Lord Hasenpfeffer
> So is there anyone here who refuses to buy used CD's? Myke? I own nearly 1,700 CDs and a great many of them were purchased used. Used CDs do not rob artists. One CD is expected to sell one time. Whatever happens to it after that is irrelevant. As for promo CDs, I have maybe 1 or 2. I don't p

Re: FLUXLIST: Promo/Used CD question

2000-05-17 Thread Don Boyd
I own two CD,s Mozart and Beethoven. -Don

Re: FLUXLIST: Promo/Used CD question

2000-05-17 Thread ddyment
good point alex. columbia house and other record clubs are another addition. the reason they can sell cheaply to you is that the artist receives no royalty whatsoever. (that and selling your address to other companies). yours, dave ps. just saw vic c last night with kristin h. great show. does