[musictlk] album selling

Sun Dec 4 23:03:57 UTC 2011

That sounds pretty sweet. :)

Brad

On 12/4/2011  02:30 PM Sarah Alawami said...
>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:
>
> >
> >> 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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