Quote Originally Posted by Internal Error Records
ok. everyone stop for a second and make sure you acknowldge that -

DISTROS DONT ORDER CD/DIGITAL!!!!!!!!


a label will ship on any format a distro is willing to pay for.


stop pretending a few hundred (or thousand) bedroom digifiles can change an entire industry just because a topic can be bitched about on a forum which is 90% opinion and nearly no facts (10% being filler).
Let's also stop pretending that most of the labels we like are moving 10,000+ pressings. In an "industry" where a run is sometimes as limited as 500-700 pressings, a few hundred bedroom "digifiles" are a significant market factor that should be taken into consideration. I used to buy my records directly from a distributor due to a friend. He stopped working there, the music I liked stop coming in and I pretty much stopped buying records entirely. This was years ago. All the new music I hear is acquired online. If I knew where to actually buy mp3s of quality, rather than getting them in a 64-128kbit mix hosted on the web, I'd start buying tracks again. But, from what I've seen, none of the music/labels that I particularly like has taken this step yet. It's either released via CD/vinyl through a label or the artist hosts it themself and lets people download it for free. I also really don't know what you mean by saying distributors don't order CD/digital. As I mentioned in another thread, the most
money I've seen roylaty wise is from a CD release. More people bought the CD than the vinyl in numbers. I've also seen the tracks all over the place on Soulseek. I'm not going to say that everyone would buy them. But, I don't doubt for a second that there aren't enough people using filesharing to get such tracks who are like myself and might shell out a buck or two here and there for one or two high quality mp3s.