Kostya Music Thread Thing

ZennyPLUS · October 18, 2011 04:48 PM

Quote from: Kostya on October 18, 2011 02:28 PM
Quote from: ZennyPLUS on October 18, 2011 04:58 AM
Quote from: rtil on October 17, 2011 07:13 PM
i gotta be honest, $2.50/track is a ripoff

I somewhat agree with rtil. But who sets the prices? Is it you or the record company?

1.50 per track or $7 for the album seems a more reasonable price. Don't get me wrong, I really like your music, hell I'd buy it but the price is a little too steep. If I may make a suggestion, have you tried using BandCamp? I've bought music from there and it doesn't require the buyer to make an account why purchasing music from an artist, just a credit card.

http://music.flashygoodness.com/album/one-curious-nightfall-ost Just using this page as an example. I'd think you'd garner more sales if you used this to sell your music too. It allows the viewer to input the amount they wish to pay, and you can set your own or have a suggested price.

Example:

Let's say rtil went to your bandcamp page and likes your music. He sees that you suggest each track at $2.50, but he's not sure he wants to pay that much. Bandcamp can give you the option to allow him to pay what he feels, so rtil pays you 1.50 for each track. Same deal works with the album. I see that you suggest the price of your album at $5, but instead, I paid $8 because I like your music so much.

Hope that helps.

EDIT: At least that's how I believe this site works, I'm no musician so my experience with it is purely from a customer standpoint.
EDIT 2: http://bandcamp.com/faq

Yeah, I don't set the prices. I think I only get 80 cents per song. Beatport and the distributor get cuts then it gets split between me and the label. I think I may release some future stuff on bandcamp. But I think another reason why it's set at 2.50 is because beatport has many options when getting the music (wav file, aiff file, or mp3). Though I guess bandcamp one ups that with flac. BUT the main thing about beatport is if you get somewhere in the charts, it's pretty much guaranteed gigs.

But yes, future music while I progress will most likely be through bandcamp first. I'm assuming you get payment directly when it happens on bandcamp and not a quartly thing like going through my distributor.

I may even start by adding some recent tunes on bandcamp for a better price .

I'm looking forward to it, Kostya.

logen · October 20, 2011 08:07 PM

just put it on itunes, it's not that hard

also, yeah, that price is too much for an EP

Kostya · October 20, 2011 11:03 PM

The problem is, the label set it as exclusive on beatport. So, beatport only for those 4 for now.

Kostya · October 28, 2011 06:57 PM

Awww yeeaaaah, just finished up a new track here! http://soundcloud.com/kostya1/draconian
Also, between my Beatport releases, I'm going to be releasing singles on Bandcamp here: http://kostya.bandcamp.com
You'll probably enjoy the $1.00 price instead

ZennyPLUS · October 29, 2011 07:35 AM

Good to hear my friend, pizza point for you.

cipher · October 29, 2011 07:36 AM

too bad for you i'm going to pirate it!

rtil · October 29, 2011 07:41 AM

i'm actually surprised at how easy it is to steal tracks from bandcamp. even easier than soundcloud. but don't worry, i will buy it

ZennyPLUS · October 29, 2011 07:44 AM

Quote from: rtil on October 29, 2011 07:41 AM
i'm actually surprised at how easy it is to steal tracks from bandcamp. even easier than soundcloud. but don't worry, i will buy it

I thought Bandcamp had a way of dealing with that? I saw something about that in the FAQs but I didn't get around to reading it.

EDIT: Oh wait, nevermind. I read it. Huh, go figure. But still, yeah, I'm buying from you Kostya because I'm not a douche and I like your music.

rtil · October 29, 2011 08:05 AM

Quote from: ZennyPLUS on October 29, 2011 07:44 AM
Quote from: rtil on October 29, 2011 07:41 AM
i'm actually surprised at how easy it is to steal tracks from bandcamp. even easier than soundcloud. but don't worry, i will buy it

I thought Bandcamp had a way of dealing with that? I saw something about that in the FAQs but I didn't get around to reading it.

EDIT: Oh wait, nevermind. I read it. Huh, go figure. But still, yeah, I'm buying from you Kostya because I'm not douche and I like your music.

they might but it's not good enough. i was able to get the location of the mp3 being streamed rather easily and could have saved it to my desktop.. you can do it with firebug/chrome dev tool/etc rather easily unfortunately.

Kostya · October 29, 2011 03:58 PM

But can you download the 188mb .wav file I uploaded?

rtil · October 29, 2011 09:43 PM

why on earth would i want that when all the compression work has been done for me

Kostya · October 30, 2011 04:53 AM

Quote from: rtil on October 29, 2011 09:43 PM
if it's not flac, it's wack

that's why