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sjbrot:
I wasn't saying that their achievement was meaningless, just that the article made them seem like they would raking in all this cash when, relatively, it's not that much. Especially when they have to undertake all of the overhead themselves.

stevethepirate:
Well, if you think about it, most record labels make up for the loss of money in production by hiking the price up on their albums. They then take the majority of the profit from them and give only a very small percentage to the actual band. And if you think about it all this band needs is a Computer with a CD burner and some really cheap writable CD's, it's almost pure profit, cause when you think, a case of like 100 writable CD's costs something like 20 bucks. Very inexpensive considering what most major labels charge. And now that these guys are on our forum some of us might even try buying there stuff, they could potentially go multinational or even sart there own music label. This could potentially turn out to be one of those weird, nothing to everything success stories.

Johnny C:

--- Quote from: lb969 ---20,000x10=$200,000

say $20
20,000x20=$400,000

--- End quote ---

You're simplifying a little. Unless the band self-manages, and the record stores operate without any take from the album, and they recorded for free, then they didn't make that money. They made something close, but they didn't make that money. And however many members there are in that band, then that would be an above-reasonable salary for one year for them.

What I'm saying here is that I'm glad they moved 20000 records, and I don't care how much money they generated. Go indie bands!

dinosrawr:
nicely said, my pirate friend.

sp2:
I also want to point out that they've moved 20,000 records in less than a month.  Word of mouth works more or less exponentially.  That is, it starts out slowly and then speeds up rapidly.

So, you never know.

Plus, everyone knows bands make money off merch and touring.

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