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Re: Music trading scheme
Honestly, I think setting up someone as a go-between between traders
unnecessarily complicates the process. It's easy enough for any
prospective trader to post a message to the list and go from them.
Just my opinion.
Kevin Cheli-Colando wrote:
> Over the last couple of days I've been listening to two cds that I just
> received from members of this list and have been enjoying them quite a
> bit. What I was wondering was how many of us on this list have CDs of
> music that we have created that we feel have never really circulated as
> much as we might like? And then I struck upon the idea of trying to
> organize a one time (initially at least) trading circle here.
>
> What I'm thinking is that everyone who wants to be involved would send a
> message to the curator/director/whatever you call them (I will volunteer
> but it will be after the holidays before anything actually starts to
> happen) stating that they are interested, how many discs they want to
> trade (and hence the number they will receive hopefully), and where
> they're willing to ship them to (across oceans can get a tad pricey). We
> could also possibly ask for a general genre so that no one gets stuck
> with ambient guitar music they don't want :-) (btw, that is humor, I am
> an ambient guitarist much of the time).
>
> I imagine that we will finally have a list of people who have said they
> want to trade x number of discs and then I'll simply keep a tab and then
> start to match people up and tell them where to send their discs and
> what to expect from whom.
>
> I don't know if this will get overwhelming or not (guess it depends on
> how many people want to get in on it) but it seemed like a good way to
> get some of this group's music circulating (I personally don't much care
> to download 30+ minute songs and find I listen better if I have a hard
> copy to move around from place to place).
>
> Does this sound like a good idea to people and if so, does anyone want
> to go in on it?
>
> Kevin
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