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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>Ha! Beat ya to it! My group, Future 
Perfect, did 
just that for our second CD release- recorded them at home direct to DAT, 
borrowed a friends CD burner and went to town copying them. We got a deal 
on the 
white/blue bulk CD-r's and each one has original artwork on the CD itself. 
Designed the printing at home, and took it to a local printer- cost $35 
for the 
printing. We numbered each one, and even shrinkwrapped 'em- total cost to 
us, 
including DAT tape, printing, CD-r's was less than $250. Our first CD cost 
us 
with printing and studio time over $5000. Guess which one sells 
more...</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2></FONT><FONT size=2>We sell our CD's at 
gigs for 
$15 (no one needs to know what it cost us to make, besides, the quality of 
the 
recording-and hopefully the music- is what they are paying for). We also 
get a 
few sales via our website, but most of them are at shows. More power to 
ya- the 
price of CD duplication is crazy these days, and any way we can save money 
is 
more money we can use to buy the latest looping toys.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>This is also a quick way of getting your music out into 
the 
world-it took us about 5 days, start to finish, as opposed to the year and 
a 
half for our first CD.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Dave Eichenberger</FONT></DIV>
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<BLOCKQUOTE 
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5px"></FONT>for 
    my own releases, since i know that there is <I>limited audience</I>for 
what 
    i do, i'm planning on burning them myself, hand-painting the insert 
j-cards, 
    &amp; having numbered limited editions (ala steve roach dream circle, 
or 
    zoviet france, or crash worship, or whoever else), and selling them at 
gigs 
    or on the net for $10. this is not to be pretentious, but to be punk 
    rock.&nbsp; no label, no middleman, no crap. <BR>i'll be treating 
these cd's 
    like t-shirts or other merchandise, &amp; what touring (or 
non-touring) band 
    doesn't know that you make more $ from merch than you get paid by the 
club? 
    <BR>yes, my overhead is low. yes, i'm making profit per unit. but it's 
my 
    music &amp; if you are willing to shell out $10 after hearing the 
band, i 
    think you'll find the cd's very nice. <BR>i don't think making a 
couple of $ 
    playing fun, strange, left-feild music is a bad thing. 
    <P>the band that i'm a sideman in sells their cd's for usually 14.99 
at most 
    stores, list 16.99 or whatever. they sell enough of them to keep 
putting 
    more out, so i guess that's a fair price, too. 
    <P>i paid 17.99 for halycon days by roach/kent/newby &amp; i think 
it's 
    worth more. 
    <P>it's all 
    
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