I have 2 independed Chapman Stick CDs out plus a DVD.
I haven't made a new one since 2002, it took me quit long to sell the 2000 CDs for 10 euro. I think I gave half of them away as a promo. I did get some gigs out of this.
they just did a questionaire among the young Dutch people and asked which audio format they prefered and most of them said: mp3.
they didn't seem to care much about high end quality CDs at all.
and I get the impression they don't care much about the Covers/Booklets Artwork which come with the CDs either.
they do spend lots of money on tickets for festivals & concerts.
and they also buy plenty of concert DVDs , they download or copy these as much as CDs.
so releasing DVDs might be something to consider
take care,
ron baggerman
http://www.galaxygypsy.nl
Bill Fox <billyfox@soundscapes.us>
wrote:
Per Boysen wrote:
>> 1) Should I bother to spend any more money on what the world can already
>> get for free?
>
> But compressed digital audio files is not the same thing as the CD, is it?
> Are you really shure the "downloaders" was going to buy the record and now
> changed their mind beacuse of those crappy mp3 artifacts on their drives?
> ;-)
My friend said that the files were at the 192kbps rate. Not CD quality,
but not too bad, either. Unfortunately, I cannot divine the intentions
of other people so I can't really answer your question. Nor do I have
any way of knowing how many people have already downloaded the music.
Cheers,
Bill
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