Questions considering merchandise

[DarkAxel]

hey, guys... say you go to my concert and you quite like the band and i'm like "yo, we've got an EP here, original handdrawn design (the booklet is fucking bitchin')"

given the CDs are DIY but the booklet is professionally printed on a quality shiny cool paper and is frikkin beautiful

would you buy even if you knew you can get the songs on Bandcamp?

[andtheLiquidmen]

hey, guys... say you go to my concert and you quite like the band and i'm like "yo, we've got an EP here, original handdrawn design (the booklet is fucking bitchin')"

given the CDs are DIY but the booklet is professionally printed on a quality shiny cool paper and is frikkin beautiful

would you buy even if you knew you can get the songs on Bandcamp?

Yes.

Question though: what do you mean by the CDs being DIY? Are we talking Sharpie on a CDR, or what?

[Bellyheart]

Yes. I'm a sucka for that stuff

[D.o.S.]

hey, guys... say you go to my concert and you quite like the band and i'm like "yo, we've got an EP here, original handdrawn design (the booklet is fucking bitchin')"

given the CDs are DIY but the booklet is professionally printed on a quality shiny cool paper and is frikkin beautiful

would you buy even if you knew you can get the songs on Bandcamp?

I know you're all into, like, chord changes and all that lame shit, but the limited edition CD-R has long been a staple of psych-style bands errywhere.

[DarkAxel]

hey, guys... say you go to my concert and you quite like the band and i'm like "yo, we've got an EP here, original handdrawn design (the booklet is fucking bitchin')"

given the CDs are DIY but the booklet is professionally printed on a quality shiny cool paper and is frikkin beautiful

would you buy even if you knew you can get the songs on Bandcamp?

Yes.

Question though: what do you mean by the CDs being DIY? Are we talking Sharpie on a CDR, or what?

we're talking... well the initial idea was lightscribed CDs, but that fell through because people are unreliable... so currently the first batch is the lightscribe CDs (meaning nice half-matte gold surface without any markings) signed by the band

when we put out the first LP, it will be properly made, professionally pressed CDs and all... given this is our first physical relase and we're independent, we didn't want to go pro - it would be way more expensive and we're not even sure of the reception yet... making and selling this EP is also a way for us to get closer to being able to do a professional production of the LP - it's not like we want to make it rain by burning CDs at home

I know you're all into, like, chord changes and all that lame shit, but the limited edition CD-R has long been a staple of psych-style bands errywhere.

oh, this is not Apis Ante Portas, this is my "regular full band" we're a weird jazz/funk/hybrid with effects and fuzz and shit... can get pretty raunchy sometimes but sometimes it's jazzy or groovy or all at once

[D.o.S.]

But seriously, Bardo Pond has roughly 25,000 CDR only stuff. Doesn't seem to have hurt them at all.

[DarkAxel]

when I'm talking about making the first LP release - the plan is having a 12 page booklet with lyrics and original photos and a full-lenght conceptual piece of music

I'll be sharing the bandcamp with the EP soon here (available for download, pay what you want)... hopefully no one minds that the lyrics are in Czech, so you'll not understand shit, folks

[Iommic Pope]

Honestly dude, I don't do cds, no matter how nice the packaging is. If you had a fancy vinyl though I'd be all over that like a sex offender in a school yard. I've done that at shows too.
Me: "yeah, that was a cool show, I wonder if they have anything recorded?" off to merch stand...
Band dude: "This is our first album"
Me: "oh yeah.."
Dude:"yeah its a short EP, kinda crappy quality, its on CD"
Me: walking away
Dude: "We got it on 12", double gatefold, see through green vinyl.......stop mounting my face now mate"

[Twangasaurus]

Bardo Pond

Haven't heard that name in a few years.

To answer the question, absolutely, I love that shit. I mean, can't at the moment because I literally have no more room for physical media but...

[DarkAxel]

Honestly dude, I don't do cds, no matter how nice the packaging is. If you had a fancy vinyl though I'd be all over that like a sex offender in a school yard. I've done that at shows too.
Me: "yeah, that was a cool show, I wonder if they have anything recorded?" off to merch stand...
Band dude: "This is our first album"
Me: "oh yeah.."
Dude:"yeah its a short EP, kinda crappy quality, its on CD"
Me: walking away
Dude: "We got it on 12", double gatefold, see through green vinyl.......stop mounting my face now mate"

haha, see what you're saying the conceptual full-lenght kind of screams for a vinyl...

neither of us does listen to vinyl though and it's not as big here, honestly maybe a very limited run? idk


anyway guys - cool attitude, you're really making me feel better about this

[D.o.S.]

Honestly dude, I don't do cds, no matter how nice the packaging is. If you had a fancy vinyl though I'd be all over that like a sex offender in a school yard. I've done that at shows too.
Me: "yeah, that was a cool show, I wonder if they have anything recorded?" off to merch stand...
Band dude: "This is our first album"
Me: "oh yeah.."
Dude:"yeah its a short EP, kinda crappy quality, its on CD"
Me: walking away
Dude: "We got it on 12", double gatefold, see through green vinyl.......stop mounting my face now mate"

Put on your prog cape and tell your heathen gods to prepare for war.

[Iommic Pope]

Totally need a cape to nerd out to vinyl in.
You sir are a genius.

Edit (to get back on topic): Yeah man, limited runs are where its at. Personally, I hate CDs just because they're a media/medium (depending on what you prefer) that is just too perishable. I'd rather sink my moolah into pressing limited run vinyl and letting people know where they can get the mp3s from (which, of course, you can make them pay/donate for to recuperate some costs). That's just me though, and I'm more experienced with nerd music for nerds who like nerdy shit like that. But if CDs are your go, then having sweet artwork is definitely incentive.

[DarkAxel]

funny thing, if you need a prog cape for vinyl, we should do fucking vinyl because we're kinda prog we are sometimes told we sound like Crimson and some 70'/80' Czech prog bands

anyway... I don't know, man... I personally feel that the vinyl is coming back more in USA than here in Czech Republic so there's not much demand here

[D.o.S.]

Wrap your CD-Rs in individually sewn and numbered prog capes.

Iommic's in Oz, if I remember correctly.

[DarkAxel]

oh, right well to be honest, my country seems pretty backwards in kind of... everything so... straya is also better off then us i'd say

how do you guys keep the vinyls from warbling in such heat is beyond me