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Yes, I read that too - it's part of what made me write my original
post yesterday. I'm glad you saw the banner ad on the garagepunk.com
forums - I'm actually working on putting banner ads on a bunch of
different websites. It seems to be working pretty well so far.
Thanks,
Sean
Double Crown Records / The Continental Magazine
P.O. Box 4336 - Bellingham, WA 98227-4336
www.dblcrown.com
--- In , "Klas Fjellgren" <surfites@...>
wrote:
>
> Yeah, I also read about the Crypt releases going down but the owner
> Tim Warren is soon open up a record shop in New York so obviously he
> believes things aren't totally bad when it comes to selling physical
> records. Anyone interested can check out the post here:
>
>
>
> I noticed that you have a Double Crown advertising banner up at the
> GaragePunk.com forum boards which I think is a great move. I always
> believed that the best way to make the surf music genre to grow is to
> try to attract people from related genres such as garage music and
> rockabilly.
>
> Keep it up!
>
> / Klas
>
>
> --- 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
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >
>
