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Sell Your Music on iTunes Music Store
Photo_Designer writes "CD Baby is now accepting music to be sold via digital distibution through iTunes Music Store, Listen.com and others. Their cut is 9 percent. The artists get 91 percent of the sale and retain all the rights to their music. There is a $40 fee for each album submitted. It will be interesting to see how much indie music gets on and how it does. Imagine being a touring indie band and be able to tell people to go to iTunes and buy your songs; it seems this could be a huge boon to musicians wanting to circumvent/boycott/avoid/destroy the RIAA." Note that this is not an agreement to get on iTMS or any other service, only for CD Baby to be your distributor. iTMS can still reject your sorry attempt at fame.
I really don't wanna hear you guys sing.
that pudge is harboring some ill will from a previous failed attempt at a career in indie music.
It has been anounced today that the long expected album "CowboyNeal in the Tub / Greatest Hits" will hit the digital shelves any time this week
Life isn't like a box of chocolates. It's more like a jar of jalapenos. What you do today, might burn your ass tomorrow.
I'm already hooked up to a major RIAA label for life you insensitive clod!
Melius mori in libertate quam vivere in servitute.
Here's the proof, came with my invoice:
Your CD has been gently taken from our CD Baby shelves with sterilized contamination-free gloves and placed onto a satin pillow.
A team of 50 employees inspected your CD and polished it to make sure it was in the best possible condition before mailing.
Our packing specialist from Japan lit a candle and a hush fell over the crowd as he put your CD into the finest gold-lined box that money can buy.
We all had a wonderful celebration afterwards and the whole party marched down the street to the post office where the entire town of Portland waved 'Bon Voyage!' to your package, on its way to you, in our private CD Baby jet on this day, Tuesday, July 15th. I hope you had a wonderful time shopping at CD Baby. We sure did. Your picture is on our wall as 'Customer of the Year'. We're all exhausted but can't wait for you to come back to CDBABY.COM!!
All that, and shipping was only $2.25!
Imagine being a touring indie band and be able to tell people to go to iTunes and buy your songs; it seems this could be a huge boon to musicians wanting to circumvent/boycott/avoid/destroy the RIAA.
Imagine being a touring indie band and telling 95% of your audience that your music is on the iTunes store but they cannot listen to it because they don't have a Mac! That will really show the RIAA!
(1) Typical profit per sale will range between -5% and 3% depending on marketing terms and market conditions
(2) Setup costs of $30 available to Ultra Platinum Plus artists only. Typical setup costs between $80-200 per song.
(3) Payment processing is facilitated by a third party contractor; allow 5-8 months lead time for most transactions.
(4) Expedited 20-day cancellation requires rapid cancellation charge of $10,000. Expedited cancellation not available for top-selling titles. Standard requests for contract cancellation will be considered on a per-request basis.
Obliteracy: Words with explosions
Thats what they did with my CD!
Quack, quack.
I've never bought from them personally, but they sound like a bunch of people that really love music...very small record-shop-ish. (See the bonus free CD for returning customers.)
A friend of mine who got something from them a while ago also thought their e-mail confirmation was absolutely hilarious:
"Your CDs have been gently taken from our CD Baby shelves with sterilized contamination-free gloves and placed onto a satin pillow.
A team of 50 employees inspected your CDs and polished them to make sure they were in the best possible condition before mailing.
Our packing specialist from Japan lit a candle and a hush fell over the crowd as he put your CDs into the finest gold-lined box that money can buy.
We all had a wonderful celebration afterwards and the whole party marched down the street to the post office where the entire town of Portland waved 'Bon Voyage!' to your package, on its way to you, in our private CD Baby jet on this day, Thursday, April 17th.
I hope you had a wonderful time shopping at CD Baby. We sure did. Your picture is on our wall as "Customer of the Year". We're all exhausted but can't wait for you to come back to CDBABY.COM"
Most muscians I've known have no money:)
That's what their girlfriends are for. If they're not mercinary enough to be nailing a girl with some cashflow they should have their "rock star" badge confiscated.
Go check out the CDBaby website, and you'll see that they haven't hooked up with those services. They're pitching to obtain digital distribution rights, with no firm outlet channels as of yet.
Silly coward - you trust what the editors put in the title???
Stop by my site where I write about ERP systems & more
This is the worst thing imaginable..!!!
This is my sig.
Maybe a moderation system is in order?
I can see my tracks getting modded -1, Troll
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> (aside: If artists can start to be compensated for their work, what's to stop us IT workers and software developers?)
What? You work for free?
sig:
See the "..for smart people" banners Wired runs here? Look elsewhere guys.
Think their website looks shoddy? You must not have seen slashdot's main page.
Maybe a moderation system is in order?
As long as they have a +1 Motorhead option you can count me in!
Trolling is a art,
aht if it's a girl to begin with?
Then obviously it should be read as "boyfriend". Unless of course it's a group like T.A.T.U. and it would still be read "girlfriend".
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- - You can't take something off the Internet! That's like trying to take pee out of a swimming pool.
Even if they fully automate the submission process, can Apple swallow the cost of thousands of albums sitting on their hard disks?
If I can, why can't they?
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Oh my god, someone that argues pleasantly and without slander? Am I still on slashdot? :D Mod parent up. He deserves it.
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I don't know why but I'm picturing an enormous 40-foot-high iPod sitting in an aircraft hangar outside Cupertino...