[musictlk] album selling

[Sarah Alawami]

A lot of us are goign wiht tune core. They do the bar code free and some other free stuff as well. There is no set up fee as far as I know and you pay a yearly fee but you keep 100 ercent of yoru roilties.. You go to rapsidee, amazon, itunes, and about 100 other distribution sights. I'm gongot try them out when I release my single.

Take care.
On Dec 3, 2011, at 10:21 PM, Brad Dunsé wrote:

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>> A couple things here.
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> 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.
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> Brad
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>> On Dec 3, 2011, at 12:06 PM, Tyler wrote:
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>> > 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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