Re: Looper CD

[Joe Cavaleri <cavaleri@simi-valley.ate.slb.com>]

                        Hi again..

        Please don't quote me on prices, this is just a rough sketch. But 
for 
to keep things simple let's say that 10 people end up on the finished 
product.

        Each would then receive approx. 50 CD's each.


                                  joe


At 07:17 PM 12/2/97 -0500, you wrote:
>I admittedly haven't been following this thread too closely, but the 
>prices
>estimated seem pretty damn high to me.  $1200 for 500 CD's?  You can get
>them for a lot less, do cheap but creative packaging and stay well below a
>thousand.  The $100 per person seems pretty steep to me.  Maybe the
>administrator type can shop around for good deals and then split the cost
>among the participants.
>
>Also, does the $100 insure either a batch of CD's back or some money from
>sales?  If we're gonna do this like a standard indie release, that would
>seem logical and fair.
>
>-Jesse
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Joe Cavaleri <cavaleri@simi-valley.ate.slb.com>
>To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com <Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com>
>Date: Tuesday, December 02, 1997 7:09 PM
>Subject: Re: Looper CD
>
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>>                Just a thought.
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>> Although I may not be able to contribute at this time. A fair way to
>determine
>>cost per looper may be $'s per minute. If a run of 500 CD's cost $1200 
>and
>>the total run time per CD is approx. 70 min. each person would be charged
>>$17.00 per min.
>>
>>        One reason for this is like most people on this list I "assume"
>that
>>most loop generated music tends be be of greater length then three 
>minutes.
>>
>>
>>                        Anyway my two cents.
>>
>>
>>
>>                                        joe
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>>At 08:37 AM 12/2/97 -0800, you wrote:
>>>> From: Henry Throop <throop@bogart.Colorado.EDU>
>>>
>>>> o Submissions were limited to one per person, and mostly fixed at 3
>>>minutes.
>>>>   Everyone who sent in a tape ended up on the CD.  Most of the people
>>>>   on the disc ended up bought multiple copies, so there was no
>additional
>>>>   'submission fee.'
>>>>
>>>> o ~ 500 discs were pressed at first and sold for $15 each, to
>>>list-members
>>>>   and through a music store one member runs.  I believe they're all 
>sold
>>>>   out now.
>>>
>>>Who ended up paying for the CDs since no money was collected up front?
>>>
>>>Matt
>>>
>>>
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