CHARTARUM soundtrack available for sale! (Any minute/hour now)

[John Shaw]

It will be listed on iTunes, Rhapsody, Zune, and Napster.

I don't know when it will be up, as the service we used is an aggregator of some kind so it might take a couple days.

I also don't know exactly what the pricing is, apart from iTunes. iTunes is charging something like $9.99 for it I guess.

14 tracks of fun, not crappy tunes.

[The Green Bastard]

Somebody let me know when a torrent is available. Thanks!

[John Shaw]

Somebody let me know when a torrent is available. Thanks!

That was your 200th post.

[Amazing Richard]

Somebody let me know when a torrent is available. Thanks!

That was your 200th post.

Who is he, John? I think he is very funny. Is this a new handle this person is using? I don't remember a "Big McLargeHuge", before.

[anarchir]

He is a different user IIRC, but I cant remember who right now.

Usually I pirate my music, but this is John Shaw we're talking about, and with small time artists you have to give them their due.

[The Green Bastard]

Sorry for trolling

I'm trying to get a handle on that.

[Amazing Richard]

Sorry for trolling

I'm trying to get a handle on that.

Who are you?

[Amazing Richard]

He is a different user IIRC, but I cant remember who right now.

Usually I pirate my music, but this is John Shaw we're talking about, and with small time artists you have to give them their due.

It costs money to get yer shit on iTunes. I looked into it a while back, when I was considering exploiting my oh so cool cigarette smoking voice to do some readings of the Brothers Grimm stories, and try to make a buck off it.

I was very disappointed when I found out I had to pay money to some "digital distributor", just to get shit on iTunes, so I didn't do it.

It's the same shit. The internet was supposed to get rid of the "middle man"....but it's the same shit.

[Alex Libman]

Nothing on BTJunkie... yet...

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Yeah, I suspect you would have made more money by telling those 20th century middlemen to go fuck themselves and distributing it yourself. But I got my copy at PorcFest...

[slayerboy]

Yeah, I suspect you would have made more money by telling those 20th century middlemen to go fuck themselves and distributing it yourself. But I got my copy at PorcFest...

I  agree.  Slap it on a website and offer paypal or any other checkout option.  I somehow missed getting it at PorcFest and use none of those services.

Oh well, as they say, you can't please all the people all the time.

[John Shaw]

Yeah, I suspect you would have made more money by telling those 20th century middlemen to go fuck themselves and distributing it yourself. But I got my copy at PorcFest...

I  agree.  Slap it on a website and offer paypal or any other checkout option.  I somehow missed getting it at PorcFest and use none of those services.

Oh well, as they say, you can't please all the people all the time.

Easy to say when you don't have to do all the work. Besides, after the turnout at Porcfest, frankly I don't give a damn about the liberty crowd when it comes to sales at this point. 1000+ people, we were selling a mug, soundtrack and free beer for five days, ALL FOR TEN BUCKS, and 60 people ponied up. SIXTY. FUCKING. PEOPLE.

We then did a spot with Gardner Goldsmith, who had listened to the soundtrack and loved it, and we offered to MAIL people the leftover porcfest editions of the soundtrack for SIX BUCKS, and we got two sales.

Fuck that noise. You wanna buy, you know where it is. The people who've listened to the thing have said they like it and maybe the rest of the world will be willing to pay up.

This isn't directed at you or error, slayerboy, I'm just annoyed because I've bent over backward to get the damned thing into people's hands, and nothing but FREE BUT YOU CAN DONATE HAR HAR HAR or PAY FOR HOSTING, SET UP A SITE, LEARN HOW TO MAKE A STORE, AND MAYBE GET A SALE OR TWO seems to be a reasonable price to the liberty crowd. We spent six hours setting this shit up. At Mel's pay scale, we'd have to sell 30 copies just to pay for her labor just getting the thing listed. It would have taken even longer to set up our own store.

The suggestion that setting up four outlets with various ways to purchase the thing is somehow making things difficult for the customer is frankly insulting.

One thing I know for sure is that I'd never, ever just put out an album for people to buy. Releasing a soundtrack is ultimately helpful to the film, which is a much larger project, but there's no way I'd ever just make music for people to enjoy for its own sake. Not worth the effort.

EDIT: Special thanks to all the people who bought the soundtrack and I hope you enjoy it. I'm not shitting on the people who did pay up, and I hope you feel like you got something of equivalent or greater value than what you paid for.

[ForumTroll]

Easy to say when you don't have to do all the work. Besides, after the turnout at Porcfest, frankly I don't give a damn about the liberty crowd when it comes to sales at this point. 1000+ people, we were selling a mug, soundtrack and free beer for five days, ALL FOR TEN BUCKS, and 60 people ponied up. SIXTY. FUCKING. PEOPLE.

Don't feel too bad. I don't think we had more than around 100 customers. Lots of repeat sales, though.

[John Shaw]

Easy to say when you don't have to do all the work. Besides, after the turnout at Porcfest, frankly I don't give a damn about the liberty crowd when it comes to sales at this point. 1000+ people, we were selling a mug, soundtrack and free beer for five days, ALL FOR TEN BUCKS, and 60 people ponied up. SIXTY. FUCKING. PEOPLE.

Don't feel too bad. I don't think we had more than around 100 customers. Lots of repeat sales, though.

Yeah, but were you able to recoup your costs?

[ForumTroll]

Easy to say when you don't have to do all the work. Besides, after the turnout at Porcfest, frankly I don't give a damn about the liberty crowd when it comes to sales at this point. 1000+ people, we were selling a mug, soundtrack and free beer for five days, ALL FOR TEN BUCKS, and 60 people ponied up. SIXTY. FUCKING. PEOPLE.

Don't feel too bad. I don't think we had more than around 100 customers. Lots of repeat sales, though.

Yeah, but were you able to recoup your costs?

My other half did, but me...no.

Honestly, I think 60 sales is pretty good for this kind of product in the kind of venue it was. I don't think any bands playing at Porcfest would have sold that many CD's in comparison.