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alienproxy

My band is just about to hand off our first EP for mixing and engineering: Can anyone recommend good methods of distribution?

I write and compose for a 9-piece so-called "Indie" orchestral band in San Diego, California. This week we're making our final edits and handing our EP off to be mixed and then mastered by a third party.

We are currently discussing how best to distribute the music, which services to use for printing, and how to create incentives for people to purchase the digital FLAC version of the EP, etc..

I would appreciate it if WATMM would share its experiences, good and bad, so that we can avoid doing anything we might regret.

Thanks!

Posted Jul 12, 2011, 6:54 PM UTC

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sunchase•

I used CDBaby. It was awesome. It put everything online within 3 weeks for me, YMMV.

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alienproxyOP•

Thank you.

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darkwingfuck•

Personally, I would give the music away and set up a web-store for t-shirts. Simpler, large profit margin, can't be torrented, and they look cool. You could set up a webstore too, but for the love get them screenprinted and no crappy zazzle/cafepress stuff. T-shirts, buttons, stickers, patches, posters, and vinyl are all better ways to make money than cd's and they are free promotion! Also... think of how few people are tech-savvy enough to know what flac is, yet still BUY music. Do you play shows? No use in spending the money printing an EP unless there is a real demand for it.

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alienproxyOP•

Yes, I should have mentioned that we do play shows and have lost a lot of potential sales since, upon seeing us play, people are most excited and likely to make the purchase. We intended to sell CDs at our shows as well as use them to send to college radio stations and such.

We would love to just sell vinyl and download codes.

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