[musictlk] album selling

[Brad Dunsé]

>A couple things here.

1. Though CDBaby by themselves is a "Get Rich 
Slow" scheme, they do parterner with a host of 
download sites including amazon, iTunes and the 
like. It would cost you a little to get a CD up 
but if you promoted  those partnering outlets as 
well, you might do OK. I think it costs $35 or 
$45 for an initial CD set up plus if you have 
them do the UPC and digital coding to track 
downloads and etc. So many people use iTunes 
these days and the only way you can get on them 
is through such distributors as far as I'm aware, unless it's changed.

2. You mentioned about doing,  "spoofs of 
existing songs." If you are talking songs you 
have not written yourself, I will caution you if 
you do not have permission of the publishers of 
those songs. Even if they are parodies/spoofs, 
and not recording the original songs,  they tend 
to get a bit protective of them. If you have 
permission great, if not, you might consider 
doing so. I know a writer here who  has made his 
way around Nashville fairly well, wanted to do a 
parody on a song, asked the publisher and they 
said no. Since they have deep attorney pockets he 
just left it go. Just something to consider. If 
you think those with media copyrights aren't 
interested in the small fish independents out 
there, here's an example. My buddy, a cartoonist, 
had a character he had on Facebook, he flipped 
the F logo of Facebook around and such. I told 
him, "Dude you can't do that,  if they see that 
they'll get after you. It is not different 
enough, it's obviously their logo." He continued 
to say it was legal because it was different and 
they'd never see it anyway with all the people on 
there. A couple weeks later Facebook contacted 
him and told him to take it down or attorneys wil 
contact him. So if you don't have permission, I'd 
recommend asking the publisher or copyright holder to cover your rear.

Brad


>On Dec 3, 2011, at 12:06 PM, Tyler wrote:
>
> > Hi, this is Tyler again. The guy who's doing 
> the comedy album. When my album is complete, I'm
> > going to a website called amazonservices.com, 
> a tool, made by Amazon, that allows you
> > to sell things on the Amazon website. How 
> much will it cost for me to use any of the features of this
> > tool? Apparently, if I use it correctly, 
> within months, I'll be seeing "Amazon.com:
> > Spoof Loops: Tyler Zahnke: Music" right on 
> the Google pages for my name. How much does
> > it cost for the amazonservices.com tool? And 
> I'm doing spoofs of existing songs seventy
> > percent of the time. I wonder if that makes a 
> difference. And yes, I'm selling a CD, not a
> > file. That's why I said "Amazon: Music" for 
> what I believe the Google result will look
> > like. And I want the allmusic.com fans to be 
> able to see my album cover and hear
> > twenty-nine-second-long clips, like thousands of musicians have.
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