RA: Month to Month - Analysis of Vinyl and Techno...hmmmm

[Martin Dust]

Sure, there's no one rule for all things but could those two releases not have benefitted even more from a mixed format release?

I think making music available in the formats that people want to buy them in just makes good sense. I don't really understand why labels refuse to supply a demand for their music. I can't see who it benefits or protects.

People just resort to filesharing to meet the need, so the artists and labels lose out on the revenue and the exposure. Seems counterproductive to me.

Because they don't want to, it's as simple as that, not everyone wants to conform to a general accepted point of view.

Sometimes it's just the right thing to do, just say NO to mass production and other peoples desires ;)

[Jay Pace]

Because they don't want to, it's as simple as that, not everyone wants to conform to a general accepted point of view.

Sometimes it's just the right thing to do, just say NO to mass production and other peoples desires ;)

To an extent I can understand this....

Maserati could make a cheap sports car for everyone and sell hundereds of thousands, but they choose to sell in tiny numbers to people who are passionate enough about them to pay crazy money. Not the greatest analogy, but some of it holds up.

So sure, labels can opt not to release digital because they aren't interested in their product being bought or played that way. Seems a bit weird to me - but I suppose if the label has a ethos they are committed to, and have artists who support that ethos its their collective decision. And on that basis they aren't missing a trick, they're opting not to take it.

Fair enough if people want to go down that route. Guess you'd have to be doing pretty well financially though to turn down money for your music. I don't know many artists who wish they'd sold less music and made less money...

[Martin Dust]

Fair enough if people want to go down that route. Guess you'd have to be doing pretty well financially though to turn down money for your music. I don't know many artists who wish they'd sold less music and made less money...

Your looking at this completely wrong Jay, not everything and everyone is about £££.

And you say you don't know anyone, well we've just finished our tracks for DS93 005, I'm going to sell less, make less money but produce a hand finished 12", rubber stamped, hand numbered with a screen printed sleeve and when I have it in my hands I'll be happy.

[Jay Pace]

Your looking at this completely wrong Jay, not everything and everyone is about £££.

You could release it on betamax wrapped in raw silk if you wanted, or limit your release to 100 hand carved solid gold plates. If thats what does it for you cool, not griping its a passion and unique and individual preference and all that.

Where it gets a little weird - is when people start complaining that people won't buy their music in the format they want them to. They won't buy vinyl/betamax/solid gold discs and instead just get the music in whatever format suits them best, legitimate or not.

People moan about the state of the industry, vinyl sales and the fickle public, but then they deliberately choose to solely cater for an increasingly niche audience. If thats their intention then good luck. If not, they've got not really got a valid reason to moan.

[Martin Dust]

You could release it on betamax wrapped in raw silk if you wanted, or limit your release to 100 hand carved solid gold plates. If thats what does it for you cool, not griping its a passion and unique and individual preference and all that.

Now you're just exaggerating :)

Where it gets a little weird - is when people start complaining that people won't buy their music in the format they want them to. They won't buy vinyl/betamax/solid gold discs and instead just get the music in whatever format suits them best, legitimate or not.

People moan about the state of the industry, vinyl sales and the fickle public, but then they deliberately choose to solely cater for an increasingly niche audience. If thats their intention then good luck. If not, they've got not really got a valid reason to moan.

I aint moaning, I ****ing love it.