{"id":1813,"date":"2003-04-24T02:30:00","date_gmt":"2003-04-24T01:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2003\/04\/24\/better-than-self-published-innova\/"},"modified":"2015-06-19T00:27:04","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T23:27:04","slug":"better-than-self-published-innova","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2003\/04\/24\/better-than-self-published-innova\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Better than self-published<\/h3>\n<p>Innova Recordings (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.innova.mu\" target=\"_TOP\">http:\/\/www.innova.mu<\/a>) will maunfacture your CD, do cover art designs, proofing, jewel cases, printing, PR, etc of 1000 CDs for about $5.24 per CD (please note that this estimate has significant digit errors.  I ought to say about $5.00 a CD, but anyway&#8230;).  At then end of the process, you get to have 950 CDs sitting in your basement or studio or whatever.  I know a guy who self-produced 2000 CDs and he still has more than 1700 of them, despite giving copies to everyone remotely in the music buisiness.  It&#8217;s a good CD, but he&#8217;s got no buzz.  Neither do I.<br \/>\nSo even if I create the most fxcking awesome faux audio language course ever thought up by a human being, who the hell is going to buy a copy?  Which is why I should stick to &#8220;selling&#8221; my CD via Mp3.com.  The quality sucks.  No record stores carry it.  It&#8217;s never had a review.  I&#8217;ve sold exactly one copy.  and it&#8217;s only cost me about 20 bucks (buying copies and giving them to family).  which is a higher per-disk rate than a real record company, but I don&#8217;t have 950 disks in my basement.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m glad that music school is going to be free, cuz there&#8217;s just no way I would ever be able to make back my tuition otherwise.  And there&#8217;s no way that I could make back $5k on a run of my CDs, whether I printed 1000 or 10000 or 100, cuz nobody would buy it.  Of course, if it were all about the money, I&#8217;d be working for a startup in Palo Alto making software for corporations to spy on their employees&#8217; email, IM conversations and websurfing habits (yes, I&#8217;ve had a job offer.  I considered it for about one milisecond.  Yes, I know I&#8217;m lucky to be able to say no).  But I don&#8217;t really want to schlep 950 CDs to Middletown either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Better than self-published Innova Recordings (http:\/\/www.innova.mu) will maunfacture your CD, do cover art designs, proofing, jewel cases, printing, PR, etc of 1000 CDs for about $5.24 per CD (please note that this estimate has significant digit errors. I ought to say about $5.00 a CD, but anyway&#8230;). At then end of the process, you get &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2003\/04\/24\/better-than-self-published-innova\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4065,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813\/revisions\/4065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}