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Sean,
This is Sad but understandable news about some of these other
labels. I truely hope that you hang in there and do well, or better.
I'll be the first to admit that I don't buy every surf cd that
comes out. But I'd like to do my best to help by buying as much as I
can. Not to brag but in almost 10 years I have about 1000 surf
cd's. I know a guy that has been into it for a bit longer and only
has 75 or so. I try to tell him about new stuff, and he doesn't
care. Other people may be fans and might buy it, but might not
know about it. I know there is tons of stuff out there that I have
no idea about.
As for downloading or stealling songs. I think that's a shame.
I for one like to have real cd's or vinyl. and only settle for
cdr's if the original is no longer availble. Also I think that
the quality of downlaoded songs is bad. But some people may be fine
with that. I say the only thing that may help is to just try to
get the word out there more. Or make downloadable versions
available, but still press small amounts for us living in the dark
ages, that still like to hold the real thing in our hands.
Best bumper sticker I saw recently said, everytime you download
a song ,God kills a kitten. I believe it!!! :-)
Jeff(bigtikidude)
--- In , "Double Crown Records"
<records@...> wrote:
>
> I just thought I'd throw this out. We all know that the music
industry is hurting these days, due to file sharing, CD piracy,
online radio and podcasting. While people are still listening to
music as much as they did before, people just aren't buying it. I
just read about how the owner of Crypt Records has stopped releasing
CD's. Estrus no longer puts out stuff the way they used to. Same with
Norton and other similar labels. What's the future? I know Double
Crown's not doing as good as it used to, although I have no plans of
shutting down. Is the future online downloads? What's also curious to
me is the fact that there are hundreds of people on the Cowabunga,
Reverborama and Surf Guitar 101 lists that dig surf/instro music, yet
only a small percentage actually buys our releases. Do our releases
suck? Do you already have enough surf/instro in your collection? What
should we be releasing? Our sales are good enough to keep going,
definitely, but not enough to release more that 3 or 4 CD's per year.
I'm interested in hearing feedback on all this, either on the lists,
or via e-mail to: records@...
>
> Thanks,
>
> Sean
> Double Crown Records / The Continental Magazine
> P.O. Box 4336 - Bellingham, WA 98227-4336
> www.dblcrown.com
>
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