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Well Longhair, I see your point there, BUT if you wanna look at it in that sense, Napster is a TOTALLY FREE way for record companies to spread their music, so if they don't have to spend all of that money for radio stations to play their tunes or for promotion, they should be able to cut the price of cds in half, right ?
Longhair, why did it cost you $4000 to promote your cd. If you wanna get out there, you should do what my cousin did. He sent out his band's cd to a bunch of heavy metal magazines and they in turn posted some good reviews on them with their mailing adress in the review for ordering their cd and they got a few sales outta it and a lot of publicity just for the cost of the cds, which did cost them a couple of bucks, but not no $4000. They even sent out to a few labels and did draw some attention. Their at work on their next cd now, we'll see what happens with that.
Back to the promotion, what about the bands that you don't see any promotion for ?? The bands that don't have music videos, don't have magazine ads, and don't get played on the radio ?? If that's the story, then they should sell those cds for cheap.
Anyways, Napster is a positive tool for record companies. I bought MANY cds after hearing them on Napster. I'll catch wind of a band name in a metal mag or online store, pop it into Napster to check them out, if they sound good, I'll buy it. If I was a record label and I could have most of bands songs available for people to check out, I'd be the happiest man on Earth.
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