#31
deadsetgav wrote:
Posted on Sat, 7 May 2005 at 13:04
#32
Bad Karma wrote:
By return i guess Last Wave means selling enough copies to cover recording costs,distribution and marketing.
Posted on Sat, 7 May 2005 at 13:58
#33
deadsetgav wrote:
I thought it might have meant chart return… surely the record company would get the same cut regardless where the album was sold?
I thought play & amazon cut their mark-up on the albums due to reduced costs and increased quantities that they could sell…
Posted on Sat, 7 May 2005 at 14:01
#34
Last Wave wrote:
Well, put it this way. Amazon and Play make their money from selling mainstream pop CD’s, as well as DVD’s and videogames (and gadgets and books and so on). The This Is Menace album is bought and stocked as a loss leader beucase play and amazon can absorb the losses because of all the other stuff they sell. 50 Cent and Britney Spears are their ‘bread and butter’.
Psirecords only sell psirecords stuff (naturally). The distributor expects a return for filling up their vans and delivering stock to all over the country.
It sounds crazy but psirecords are having to compete for their own product. So although you’re paying £12.99 for the album, I like to think of it as paying £9.99 for the album, and a £3 donation to psirecords so as an independant (ie SMALL) label they can continue doing other projects that just wouldn’t happen on a major label. If the extra £3 means Andy Cairns can collaborate again with a side project, I’m all for it.
If the This Is Menace album sold millions of records, then selling at £9.99 wouldn’t be an issue just because of the volume. But I can’t see it out selling the likes of The Killers or other pop chart stuff.
Posted on Sat, 7 May 2005 at 15:01
#35
sister wrote:
soul doubt wrote:
I got mine from music mania! 17 euro :)
and there, that was me… running through the music mania for about half an hour (asked, went looking, asked again,…) and still did not find it.. went home without this is menace (but with sparta’s austere and rival school’s united by fate; hiha)… i hope it’s available somewhere in antwerp soon - i won’t be in gent again for about 2 months…
Posted on Sat, 7 May 2005 at 15:21
#36
RobbyVDH wrote:
I bought it from Proxis, 19 euro
Should have it next week as they mailed me it was shipped yesterday… pretty quick because usually they are really slow :(
Posted on Sat, 7 May 2005 at 15:28
#37
deadsetgav wrote:
So where are PSIrecords selling it from ?- I totally understand the logic in what you say but I never even knew that they were selling it anywhere else
Posted on Sat, 7 May 2005 at 15:46
#38
Last Wave wrote:
Apart from their online store (at http://www.psirecords.com), it should be in most good music shops, particularly the independant type of shops (which I personally think should be supported above HMV, as HMC is a commercial business, and independant stores primarily operate out of a love for music … shocking concept!)
Posted on Sun, 8 May 2005 at 09:22
#39
deadsetgav wrote:
Yeah - but all the record shops near me have closed down. Well thats not strictly true - there is one about 3 1/2 miles away but I am soooooo lazy and dont often get to go shopping, since I started buying online i think the postman has aged about 20 years with all the parcells he has to bring.
I really miss going to record shops and browsing through the stuff, but with working full time I just dont get the chance anymore… plus HMV is just full of chav girls standing about in their tracksuits with their 20 kids talking bollocks to each other… getting in my way. :mad:
Posted on Sun, 8 May 2005 at 11:24
