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Gummo November Tee 2009
Another illustration for Gummo November Catalogue. For more design and products detail visit GUMMO site
September 28, 2009
Why we posted the new album on to the file sharing sites
The band debated and agonized the best way to do this for quite a while. The reasons we chose this path are
1. File sharing is a fact of life as are dwindling cd sales (see http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/ for some insights into how the industry is changing and why the major labels are in such decline)
2. As soon as review copies are sent out (at least six weeks before release) they will be leaked onto file sharing sites. Although this album isn't going into retail in most of the world, we still need to let people know about it's release and the tour based around it. We had to seed the music glue version before cd's are sent out so when people search for the album on the file sharing sites our version appears with the most "seeds". Everything we've tried from sending out review copies with watermarks to streaming the last album for journalists via a password have failed to prevent the album being shared. The album would have been uploaded to these p2p sites anyway, this way there's a chance that at least some of the file sharers will support the band in some way in the future.
It is a fight for survival for a band in our position, especially in the current economic climate. We hope this move and the publicity it seems to be generating for the band will enable us to continue making albums for a long time to come. The people who have pre ordered the new album have made it possible for us to take the time to craft something very special.
(from Steve Rothery MySpace)
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