Re: Real World Top Ten
Dirk van den Heuvel (dirk.v@ix.netcom.com)
Sat, 13 Jul 1996 10:42:16 -0500
At 03:43 AM 7/12/96 -0400, you wrote:
>when you become an artist, come back and tell me you don't care about
>getting paid for promo copies sold at retail (look, i don't mean to
>sound like an ass, it's just i've seen many artists get screwed at the
>most vulernable stages of their careers because all their product in the
>marketplace was royalty-free).
>
Actually Kevin here's one place we can completely agree. I think all advance
copies (let's not call them promos since that implies they're free) should
be sold through the appropriate distribution channels and should be
accounted for and royalties paid. The people who want to buy those
records-stores, deejays, trainspotter consumers, all don't mind paying. You
would not believe the number of times I have offered to buy "promos" from a
label --completely legit (assuming they account for them correctly on their
books) only to hear that they didn't think there was demand commercially so
they just sent them out to pools, etc. What happens then? The stores,
independent promo guys, deejays at pools that don't like the record, all
sell those promos but since the label didn't get paid, the bands don't get
paid. My feeling is sell the damn things, pay the bands and use the proceeds
to support the sending out of freebies to the people that really deserve
them (press, a select no. of deejays, distributor and retail buyers, radio,
and that's it). 'Nuff rambling.
--Dirk van den Heuvel--
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