Weirdie wrote:
Sean Brennan wrote:

When you release an album you spend sometimes years collecting and recording your best material, then it only has maybe 6 months on store shelves before it's shipped back to the labels and essentially in limbo (because shelf space is so scare now due to all music stores closing due to filesharing and the number of other CDs competing for shelf space). The end result is only newer and larger, more corporate sponsored artists get shelf space. So the result of filesharing has been that indie artsts are driven out of the business with nowhere to distribute their product.
Isn't it better to distribute CDs via Internet these days?


No one IS buying CDs anymore, anyway.

Fans are still buying CDs and will be doing it anyway.

Well, it's not necessarily "better" to distribute via the internet (a concept not really defined in your statement, so it's hard to address). But if you mean bypassing a label, then that part is good. But there are many drawbacks. It's best to have your CD in stores, all over the world, where anyone can go pick it or a potential new fan can buy it having heard a song or heard of the band. When the only way to get a CD is if a person already knows the band, where to order, is interested enough to track it down online, place the order, and wait until it arrives, then it cuts your sales way down. Spur of the moment sales are lost.

And if fans were buying rather than filesharing then I guess we wouldn't be having this problem.

Sean


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