[Dixielandjazz] Re. CD sales

[tcashwigg at aol.com]

Well I got this to say about that"

Brilliant marketing by a Monkey or perhaps an entire barrel of them :))

I can assure you that if I sold 360,000 copies of a CD in one week I 
could care less if anybody ever heard of me again !!
Much less what a major record label thinks, If it had been ontheir 
label they would not have even paid the royalties on it, as it would 
have found a way to eat them up in expense re-coupments for shrink 
wrapping, packaging, printing, manufacturing, producer bonuses and 
executive bonuses, radio promotion men bonuses etc..    And they would 
also have kept at leat 50% of the publishing royalties as well.   
Stupid Supid Stupid Monkeys.   Out smarted the SHARKS.  ha ha ha  
ROTFLOL  Love it.

Take the MONEY AND RUN,  and talk about me as a one hit wonder and a 
has been for the rest of the decade, I'll be sitting in Sunny Spain 
where it Rains mainly upon the Plains,  sipping sangria with Jim Kash,  
:))


Thanks Nancy great story,  :))

Tom  " Now WHY DIDN'T I THINK OF THAT"  Wiggins

Glad I didn't, just think how many trips to the post office I would 
have had to make to mail those Cds out,, and the stamps to lick  
yuck!!!   To hard to make that kind of money

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert S. Ringwald <robert at ringwald.com>
To: DJML <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Sat, 4 Feb 2006 15:32:50 -0800
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Re. CD sales

    Wow! I can't wait to hear what the recording gurus on DJML will have 
to say about this. 
 
 Bring it on!!! 
 
  
  ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nancy Giffin" 
<NANCYink at surewest.net> 
 To: "Dixieland Jazz" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com> 
 Sent: Saturday, February 04, 2006 3:03 PM 
 Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Re. CD sales 
 
 Forgive me if this has already been mentioned; 
 I haven¹t had time to keep up with DJML. 
 How is this for a marketing strategy: 
 
 -- At concerts, give away CD-Rs of every song you've recorded 
 -- Encourage everyone to pass it around the Internet 
 -- Make it available at no cost over file-sharing networks. 
  -- Sell 360,000 of your first album in the first week of commercial 
sales. 
 
 Say what?! That would be a record-breaking first week of sales. 
 And so it was!!! 
 
 Read all about it in this tongue-in-cheeky article from ZDNet UK: 
 http://comment.zdnet.co.uk/other/0,39020682,39249667,00.htm 
 
 DON'T MONKEY AROUND WITH NEW IDEAS 
 ZDNet UK 
 
 January 30, 2006, 15:30 GMT 
 
 For proof of how innovation can go badly wrong, just look to Sheffield 
 
 It is always sad to report abuses of technology, especially when they 
  threaten an industry. But this week has seen the true evil of file 
sharing 
 laid bare < and the implications for all of us have been made clear. 
 
  The Arctic Monkeys, a Yorkshire beat combo, have been the biggest 
victims of 
  this sordid business, and it's all been through their own stupidity. 
They 
  actually gave away CD-Rs of their music < all of it < at their own 
concerts. 
 Then they compounded the madness by encouraging their young, digitally 
  literate fan base to actually make it all available at no cost over 
file 
 sharing networks. 
 
  As any big record label will tell you, this is commercial suicide. By 
the 
  time the first album was commercially released last week, every note 
had 
 been globally available, for free, for months. 
 
  Fortunately, the BPI is active in preventing such lunacy. It's taken 
two 
  file sharers to court, last week landing them with a £20,000 bill, a 
move 
  calculated to show the tens of millions of others just how likely they 
are 
 to get caught. 
 
  Such measures are very necessary. By industry logic, every file shared 
is a 
  sale lost. Those sad Monkeys must be kicking themselves < just think 
how 
  much bigger their record-breaking first week sales figures of 360,000 
albums 
  would have been if they had prosecuted their would-be customers too. 
Every 
  man, woman and child in the country would by now have bought five 
copies: 
  instead, penury and obscurity await. You will never hear of them 
again. 
 
  We are lucky that wiser heads are in charge of the industry, and that 
these 
  same heads are planning how to introduce powerful, widespread and 
legally 
 mandated restrictions on how all digital equipment can operate. Bitter 
  disappointment awaits those who think that revolutionary new 
technologies 
  can lead to revolutionary new ways of doing business; at all costs, 
the 
 current channels of control and distribution must be maintained. 
 
  Britain's phonographic industry must be preserved < as must every 
other 
  existing and entrenched technology industry. More control, more 
patents, 
  more lawyers and fewer freedoms are badly needed to encourage 
innovation and 
  ensure the terrible tragedy of the Monkeys is not repeated in any 
other 
 sphere where creativity matters. 
 
 +++++ 
 
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