Personally I like to buy CDs from HMV et al’s sales- e.g. one of Fat Boy Slim’s albums is there for £2.99, and then take them to Virgin, where they will kindly exchange the said album for whatever you want (e.g. Phil Collins- But Seriously) for the value of £16.99. So if you wanna distribute records, do me a favour and make sure Virgin stock them will ya?

Cheers

>From: "nibiru"

>Reply-To: orb@mailman.xmission.com

>To:

>Subject: RE: [Orb] mp3's are great / erection cream / me contributin

>Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 10:11:45 -0000

>My front door backs on to the chicken place (KFC)

>Which stands for kentucky fried cunts

>And it does smell strangely of onion rings and bubble gum

>Well indigo would know shes been there I suppose..

>Sorry bout the smell m but hey! You get to work in a great

>Dysfunctional studio -

>By the way im just looking into making records..

>If you made 2000 records with full colour artwork it would cost you

>roughly 2400 quid .. minus the 8 percent that mcps takes in uk and minus

>manufacturing and the percentage the distributor takes you are left with

>about 1700 squid and that’s if you don't give away any promo copies or

>hire any company for promotion...

>If you give away say 200 promo copies (£3.25 each) and pay the promotion

>company say 3 squid a copy to promote it you are left with about five

>hundred quid.. take away the time it takes you to make the record...

>oops

>Basically you are left with one can of beans and half a fag..

>That’s counting on the fact that you sell all 2000 immediately otherwise

>you have to wait till the end of each month for your next cheque from

>the distributor...

>So the only way you can make money is by licensing records or putting

>them on comps .. OR... internet sales ...that seems realistically in the

>first steps of a label the only way you can make something ... still

>looking into it .. let us know what you think..

>Cheers

>kris

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>To: orb@mailman.xmission.com

>Subject: Re: [Orb] mp3's suck / shrinking violets / thrash

>contributions?

>nibiru wrote:

> > Yes me boney chuck man you could be looping right

> > I think I did maudle round here a few years ago

> > Then the telephone pole outside my house feel down

> > And it took them 8 years to repair it

>but it still smells of onion rings....

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