Menu
Another thing about the 90s, I've noticed is some bands would cover
songs that NO ONE would touch these days, because they are SO over
done. Squad Car is on the Finks album and a SPs album. Now that song
seems kinda like an untouchable when it comes to covering for an
album. People at our shows who aren't surf nazis enjoy Squad Car, but
we would have never thought of including it on our first CD(check for
our limited edition which does tho haha).
I think the market has just been flooded with surf bands. There are
more surf bands today then ever before.
Bill
--- In , "contrec" <records@...> wrote:
>
> I dig vinyl too, but it just doesn't sell in the US anymore. I'm
> really surprised when I hear that bands/labels sell 300-500 7"s - you
> could do that in the 90's, but it's hard to do that now. I've toyed
> with the idea of offering a free CD-R with each Double Crown 7"
> purchase that would have the songs on there. So you'd get the vinyl,
> the artwork and a CD that you could play in your CD player or put on
> your Ipod. I might also look into adding our vinyl releases to Itunes.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Sean
> Double Crown Records / The Continental Magazine
> P.O. Box 4336 - Bellingham, WA 98227-4336
> www.dblcrown.com
>
>
>
> --- In , "Jacob Dobner" <jacobdobner@>
> wrote:
> >
> > I just don't have the money to buy much. I also do not pirate. I also
> > listen to a lot of different genres and I cannot focus all my
> > resources into surf music or the related genres. Something I have
> > been getting into a lot these days are indie bands. They tend to all
> > put LPs out so I buy the LP and download the MP3s so I can have a CD
> > and large LP to display and collect. Indie LPs and CDs tend to be $10
> > so the price is quite welcoming. I also tend to try to buy a lot of
> > the older surf releases. Again most of those are on LPs. There is
> > something special about have LPs. My favs are Jim Messina and the
> > Jesters and my Jon and the Nightriders Liveat the Whiskey. Also I like
> > to buy modern 7"s.
> >
> > --- 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]
> > >
> >
>
