Music folks! How do you react on seeing your work in a sale?

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1) Ooh, the distribution seems to be working

2) Heh! I should buy it

3) You bastards!

Prompted on a post regarding an ILXor's past work in a sale. (oops, nearly typo'd Salad there)

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 28 July 2006 08:14 (seventeen years ago) link

4) Suicide

― Sploshette Moxy (Dada), Friday, 28 July 2006 08:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Well, thing is, if there are left over copies, presumably you'd have been paid, and demand has not outstripped supply (which sounds bad, but worse is when supply is not enough to meet demand yeah?)

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 28 July 2006 08:41 (seventeen years ago) link

presumably you'd have been paid

Hollow laugh!

― Sploshette Moxy (Dada), Friday, 28 July 2006 08:42 (seventeen years ago) link

TBH... "well, at least someone might buy it at a reduced rate!"

I'd just be happy it hadn't been the CD equivalent of pulped.

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Friday, 28 July 2006 08:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Less embarrassing than seeing your shite early records going for above average prices on Ebay. Some things are rare for a good reason folks!

Has anyone here ever been paid by a label?

― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Friday, 28 July 2006 09:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes, but not for making music.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Friday, 28 July 2006 09:36 (seventeen years ago) link

::tries to think::

No, never got cash money off a label. However, most labels I've worked with have been fairly small and gave us a certain number of free copies of our release to sell to raise cash in lieu of payment.

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Friday, 28 July 2006 09:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes, but not for making music.

Yes, that would be silly

― Sploshette Moxy (Dada), Friday, 28 July 2006 09:45 (seventeen years ago) link

I got paid twenty quid once.

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Friday, 28 July 2006 10:47 (seventeen years ago) link

I've made FAR more money off self released stuff than ever made off stuff from labels, TBH. Kind of annoying when that stuff ends up in the second hand sale bins at MVE, though, becuase it's more like "hey! if you needed the money, why didn't you just sell it back to me?"

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Friday, 28 July 2006 10:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Has anyone here ever been paid by a label?

yes

don't mind seeing stuff on sale or in the used bin...unless it's in the used bin a couple of weeks before the release date, which I did see once

― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Friday, 28 July 2006 11:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Well, you're on, like, a PROPER label, Tommy!

in the used bin a couple of weeks before the release date, which I did see once

Me, too. Though I found it more funny than anything else... so which music hack was feeding their cocaine habit with it that week?

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Friday, 28 July 2006 11:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Has anyone here ever been paid by a label?

God yes! If you have a reasonable deal (50/50 profit split, for instance) and don't record expensively, you should get paid enough to live on, even with just a few thousand sales.

I'm sure my records have been in sale bins quite frequently, but better that than not finding them in the store anywhere. In fact, quite a few people have told me they became fans after finding something in a bagain bin somewhere, then buying / downloading the rest.

Sorry if this is a silly question, but is Thomas Tallis that goat fellow in disguise?

― Momus (Momus), Friday, 28 July 2006 12:35 (seventeen years ago) link

just a few thousand sales.

if only!

As a record label, seeing your records in the dollar bin, I find pretty depressing. Seeing promo copies going cheap on eBay prior to release, I find REALLY depressing.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 28 July 2006 12:42 (seventeen years ago) link

furreal? thats freaking wrong...lets be responsible with our promos now people...

― if yr not glen campbell, i dont give a damn (bbrz), Friday, 28 July 2006 14:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Once in Chicago we found one of our records in the used bin at Jazz Record Mart, bought it, then sold it for double the price at a show that night.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 28 July 2006 15:14 (seventeen years ago) link

I get all my Momus CDs from Mister Pound.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 28 July 2006 16:52 (seventeen years ago) link

I still get excited even if I see our cds in used bins.

― darin (darin), Friday, 28 July 2006 17:06 (seventeen years ago) link

There's a really shitty compilation CD from 1996 that has two of my old pop-dance tunes on it. It was a colossal waste of time & money for all involved - we could barely GIVE the thing away when it was current - and it STILL comes back to haunt me when I'm combing the bargain bins of second-hand shops.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 28 July 2006 17:28 (seventeen years ago) link

i saw some stuff i did years ago secondhand recently.
i was more surprised that the shop thought they were worth rack space than anything really. bless em.

― zappi (joni), Friday, 28 July 2006 17:41 (seventeen years ago) link

God yes! If you have a reasonable deal (50/50 profit split, for instance) and don't record expensively, you should get paid enough to live on, even with just a few thousand sales.

I can't see how this could be true.

― Alicia Titsovich (sexyDancer), Friday, 28 July 2006 18:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Momus lives in the sewer.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Friday, 28 July 2006 18:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Momus that is totally not a serious question, I mean it can't be

― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Friday, 28 July 2006 19:03 (seventeen years ago) link

my old band's records haunt the used bins of mpls record stores.

i don't care though. that's money we lost in the past. i'm focusing on the money my new band is losing now and all the money we will lose in the future.

― M@tt He1geson: Real Name, No Gimmicks (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 28 July 2006 19:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Aim high, my friend.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 28 July 2006 19:14 (seventeen years ago) link

carpe diem!

― M@tt He1geson: Real Name, No Gimmicks (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 28 July 2006 19:17 (seventeen years ago) link

It used to be about the music, man. These days all you care about is who's going to take your money.

― Steve Go1dberg (Steve Schneeberg), Friday, 28 July 2006 19:31 (seventeen years ago) link

don't player hate - participate!

― M@tt He1geson: Real Name, No Gimmicks (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 28 July 2006 19:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Momus that is totally not a serious question, I mean it can't be

I'm afraid it is. I missed the title sequence, so I have no idea who's playing who. I guess I'll pick it up at the end titles.

― Momus (Momus), Friday, 28 July 2006 22:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Well, I'm John Vanderslice in disguise.

― Steve Go1dberg (Steve Schneeberg), Friday, 28 July 2006 22:51 (seventeen years ago) link

well I sorta thought you knew for, like, a long time

sorry I didn't say "hi" at the Matmos show a month or two back, I sorta didn't know how to go "hi I'm the dude that generally thinks yer wrong, how's it hangin'"

― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Saturday, 29 July 2006 13:47 (seventeen years ago) link

two years pass...

"that goat fellow"

― Feugh! (since somebody always asks: rhymes with "Peugh!") (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 28 May 2009 21:48 (fifteen years ago) link

http://baxterking.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/people-goat-man.jpg

― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Thursday, 28 May 2009 21:56 (fifteen years ago) link

background tittays

― velko, Thursday, 28 May 2009 21:59 (fifteen years ago) link

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