Why did yourlabel decide that a physical CD was critical to the projects overall success?
JN: Bottom line is that you need a physical product. What kills CD’s is that that product can be duplicated in one shot. So if we were going for a long-term sales goal, we would rely less heavily on the CD. But since our activities are peaking at one large and beautiful event–at the Troubador on June 17–we figured it makes sense. I mean, we don’t want to set up a bunch of computers for people to buy on line–or pass out memory sticks. Where’s the art in that? And CD’s do still sell. Just less. KG: Not everyone is ready to make purchases through the Internet and we do not want to count those fans out. In order to make this CD a success BEET MUSIC realized all channels of distribution must be exploited. GD: We wanted to give to our sponsors & our bands something tangible to remember this project by. We also believe in the art of CDs…. an artist works hard to get their music and/or art out there and we feel by just downloading a song here and there or even an album the artists entire
