| Author
|
Why do so few artists bring CDs to sell?
|
Nectarios
Martian Arts
Started Topics :
187
Posts :
5292
Posted : Jan 3, 2011 19:46
|
Quote:
|
On 2011-01-03 19:03, Mike A wrote:
Quote:
|
On 2011-01-03 17:02, disco hooligans wrote:
Quote:
|
On 2011-01-03 16:07, Mike A wrote:
I think that some people don't even know how to play an audio cd.
|
|
Meaning?
|
|
Meaning that if they have a cd player in their car, then they just put it inside and it works.
But if they want to play it on a pc, it gets complicated. Playing files just easier. And you get the bonus of tagging and organizing in folders. So yes, you can rip the cd to your HD (which is what I do for example) but that's only because I know how. I doubt that most people know how to do it.
|
|
I would say the same as all my mates know how to import tunes in their computers, but all my mates are not most people, so I can't make an educated guess.
 
http://soundcloud.com/martianarts |
|
|
|
Ascension
IsraTrance Full Member
Started Topics :
170
Posts :
3642
Posted : Jan 3, 2011 21:50
|
Quote:
|
On 2011-01-03 19:46, disco hooligans wrote:
Quote:
|
On 2011-01-03 19:03, Mike A wrote:
Quote:
|
On 2011-01-03 17:02, disco hooligans wrote:
Quote:
|
On 2011-01-03 16:07, Mike A wrote:
I think that some people don't even know how to play an audio cd.
|
|
Meaning?
|
|
Meaning that if they have a cd player in their car, then they just put it inside and it works.
But if they want to play it on a pc, it gets complicated. Playing files just easier. And you get the bonus of tagging and organizing in folders. So yes, you can rip the cd to your HD (which is what I do for example) but that's only because I know how. I doubt that most people know how to do it.
|
|
I would say the same as all my mates know how to import tunes in their computers, but all my mates are not most people, so I can't make an educated guess.
|
|
I bought the first DH album from Basilisk when he came out and played at a party of ours in 09. If it wasn't for that I probably wouldn't know who they were and other people in my car wouldn't have heard them either.
Bring a few cds, make some friends at the party, ask them if they'd like to support your efforts after you play. It's not usually for a huge amount, but I've yet to see this fail. http://soundcloud.com/ascensionsound
www.chilluminati.org - Midwest based psytrance group |
|
|
|
Nectarios
Martian Arts
Started Topics :
187
Posts :
5292
Posted : Jan 3, 2011 22:33
|
We do hand out CDs to people were we play, besides obviously the promoters taht book us and the people that hang out with us at the hotel. We just burn them our selves of the mac.
http://soundcloud.com/martianarts |
|
|
|
Shiranui
IsraTrance Full Member
Started Topics :
116
Posts :
1219
Posted : Jan 3, 2011 23:19
|
Importing CDs is easy as hell if you have itunes (which anyone with an ipod does, and many people have ipods)
You literally just put the CD in and press one button.
Ripping CDs hasn't been a difficult thing to do for like 5 years. |
|
|
|
Mike A
Subra
Started Topics :
185
Posts :
3954
Posted : Jan 5, 2011 15:29
|
It could be easy, but you need to be aware to the fact that you can do it.
I'm sure most people would think about it for a second they would realize that it's possible, but they never did it so they'd just turn to downloading the thing (which they did many times) instead of ripping.
|
|
|
|
onoma
Started Topics :
3
Posts :
83
Posted : Jan 5, 2011 22:09
|
Quote:
|
On 2011-01-02 20:37, Beat Agency wrote:
Support the artists in a more smart way. Donate or buy downloads. Yes it's that simple 
|
|
Pff, hell no, I don't pay to get a wav or mp3 file on my computer. I love to buy cd's (with booklets, stickers, handwritten poetry, graphix, etc). Tbh I like holding a cd in my hands more than a file on my computer. |
|
|
|
full_on
IsraTrance Team
Started Topics :
279
Posts :
5475
Posted : Jan 5, 2011 22:26
|
Quote:
|
On 2011-01-03 21:50, Ascension wrote:
I bought the first DH album from Basilisk when he came out and played at a party of ours in 09. If it wasn't for that I probably wouldn't know who they were and other people in my car wouldn't have heard them either.
|
|
Who's DH? 
Respect!
.
...Be gentle with the earth...
...Dance like nobody's watching...
.
...I don't mind not going to Heaven, as long as they've got Coffee in Hell... |
|
|
|
MARGHERITA
Master Margherita
Started Topics :
156
Posts :
1442
Posted : Jan 5, 2011 23:42
|
allways good to have a few cds with you ,
after the years, people knows you have cds and they buy allways .....
i have plenty of example where i sell more then 10 cds in a party.
1 time in zagreb a sell 20 cds in 30 minutes in a squat the day before the party .....
the whole speech about money,,, ach, shame on you artists , you suck balls ....
and also you fucking lazy .....
.. law of attraction ...
if you dont sell is because you are not in the right state of mind ....
by the way :
i'm the KING of selling on parties, nobody can beat me, i train myself for long years in the underground .....
be happy to share with your fans , instead complain about sellings and how poor you are ....
PS
last gig in Hamburg a guy came to me saying , he was waiting my last album from 1 month from Saiko, i offer him a copy for free ....
is not allways about the money .... what about the good vibes ?
|
|
|
|
Dogon
IsraTrance Junior Member
Started Topics :
50
Posts :
8779
Posted : Jan 6, 2011 00:42
|
|
for the record i buy most of the cds from label djs/artists/owners/managers traveling around!
We were born naked & grow up to become wicked. |
|
|
|
specymen
Started Topics :
9
Posts :
119
Posted : Jan 6, 2011 13:01
|
"maybe" off topic sorry...
i've just met a friend, he is a psytrance dj (for 2 years) and he buys digital releases on psyshop. i told him about beatport but he didn't knew it !!!
so i think that there is a lack of information about where to buy digital releases on the net.
futur is not cd but digital releases and usb decks.
most important isn't the support but the music.
|
|
|
|
TranceVisuals
TranceVisuals
Started Topics :
23
Posts :
743
Posted : Jan 6, 2011 13:22
|
Quote:
|
On 2011-01-06 13:01, specymen wrote:
most important isn't the support but the music.
|
|
What a shockingly selfish thing to say imho.
www.youtube.com/trancevisuals
2,000,000+ views and counting. |
|
|
|
specymen
Started Topics :
9
Posts :
119
Posted : Jan 6, 2011 13:44
|
why ?
when i say support it means cd, usb, vinyl,
not supporting someone. |
|
|
|
d1m1tr1
Dark Elf
Started Topics :
76
Posts :
2168
Posted : Jan 6, 2011 14:45
|
Quote:
|
On 2011-01-05 23:42, MARGHERITA wrote:
allways good to have a few cds with you ,
after the years, people knows you have cds and they buy allways .....
i have plenty of example where i sell more then 10 cds in a party.
1 time in zagreb a sell 20 cds in 30 minutes in a squat the day before the party .....
the whole speech about money,,, ach, shame on you artists , you suck balls ....
and also you fucking lazy .....
.. law of attraction ...
if you dont sell is because you are not in the right state of mind ....
by the way :
i'm the KING of selling on parties, nobody can beat me, i train myself for long years in the underground .....
be happy to share with your fans , instead complain about sellings and how poor you are ....
PS
last gig in Hamburg a guy came to me saying , he was waiting my last album from 1 month from Saiko, i offer him a copy for free ....
is not allways about the money .... what about the good vibes ?
|
|
Moreno make us a tutorial !
i agree
http://darkelf.gr
http://www.sonic-loom.com |
|
|
|
TranceVisuals
TranceVisuals
Started Topics :
23
Posts :
743
Posted : Jan 6, 2011 15:39
|
Quote:
|
On 2011-01-06 13:44, specymen wrote:
why ?
when i say support it means cd, usb, vinyl,
not supporting someone.
|
|
Sorry, by support I thought you meant..
"supporting the artists" rather than what you seem to mean is the "media/medium".
www.youtube.com/trancevisuals
2,000,000+ views and counting. |
|
|
|
Nectarios
Martian Arts
Started Topics :
187
Posts :
5292
Posted : Jan 6, 2011 16:14
|
Quote:
|
On 2011-01-05 22:26, full_on wrote:
Quote:
|
On 2011-01-03 21:50, Ascension wrote:
I bought the first DH album from Basilisk when he came out and played at a party of ours in 09. If it wasn't for that I probably wouldn't know who they were and other people in my car wouldn't have heard them either.
|
|
Who's DH?
Respect!
|
|
Heared he's some know-it-all-egomaniac-darkhatin-cunt.
http://soundcloud.com/martianarts |
|
|
|
