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If we are talking about music quality as opossed to recording quality i think there has always been junk out there and major labels were no exception(and still arent). i remember getting my records at record stores when it wasnt possible to listen before buying,so many times i was dissapointed of having spent money for an album that maybe had only one or 2 tracks that were actually good and the rest it was just crap.So the searching for me and junk filtering is still happening nowdays,but i think the possibility of listening before buying,downloading only tracks you like etc.among the abundance of music out there online has also made junk filtering easier in a way.With so many options to choose from people have also become more demanding.I personally always cared more about the quality of music than the recording quality (although old lo-fi compressed further into mp3 format is just no good) www.myspace.com/luisangulocom --- On Thu, 1/22/09, David Gans <david@trufun.com> wrote: > From: David Gans <david@trufun.com> > Subject: Re: What does it mean to you, to "release a record"? > To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com > Date: Thursday, January 22, 2009, 2:09 PM > At 2:16 PM -0800 1/21/09, Matt Davignon wrote: > >I'm sure a lot of people in online music > communities use CD baby. > > > >My big beef with sites like cd baby is that they make > it *too* easy to > >release cd's. There's nothing to stop people > who take an amateurish > >approach to releasing music from flooding the market > with > >not-very-good cd's that are released on a whim. As > a result, more > >serious artists who put an intense amount of care into > their releases > >get buried under a mountain of junk if they use cd > baby. > > True, but I think the leveling of the playing field and the > > broadening of access to the marketing channel are a net > plus. Rather > than fight our way into a record deal that is pretty much > designed to > prevent artists from prospering, we can control our own > destinies on > the creative end and spend our energies fighting for > attention in the > vast marketplace. > > As CDBaby founder Derek Sivers said in an interview, where > we used to > be little tiny needles in the immense haystack of the music > industry, > now we are little tiny haystacks in one or more of several > hundred > much smaller haystacks. > > > >If I was a cd reviewer or a radio station, I probably > would ignore > >most cd baby releases, not because good musicians > aren't involved with > >CD baby, but because the choice of finding the good > musicians is much > >smaller. > > "CDBaby release" is a misnomer, isn't it? I > put my CD up there, but > I "released" it myself and I am spending money on > promotion and > publicity to get it heard, reviewed, and played on the > radio. The > fact that it's sold on CDBaby shouldn't be a > disqualifier on its > face. Any responsible journalist is well aware that the > major music > channels are full of drek and the good stuff is gonna take > some > digging. > > > > >However, in order to get the good kind of notoriety, I > think it's > >smarter to release a smaller number of albums, and make > sure each one > >is of higher quality. > > Absolutely! > > > > >I've been an advocate of artists creating their cd > releases as > >professional albums. That means editing the music down > to the absolute > >best 40 to 50 minutes (not 70 or 80 minutes), paying > close attention > >to how songs flow into each other, getting it > professionally mastered, > >having the artwork/package designed by someone > who's good at that > >stuff, and lastly, and lastly, professionally > duplicated (not cd-rs) > >including a UPC code. A lot of this stuff costs money, > but it requires > >musicians to make their records something really > special. > > Yes! > > > > > > > -- > > David Gans - david@trufun.com or david@gdhour.com > Truth and Fun, Inc., 484 Lake Park Ave. #102, Oakland CA > 94610-2730 > Blog: http://cloudsurfing.gdhour.com > Web site: http://www.dgans.com > Photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dgans > Music: http://www.cdbaby.com/all/dgans