Dude,
just release them on iTunesUK using a nice indie "digital aggregator"
such as
http://www.awal.co.ukiTunesUK sells more product these days than any record shop ANYWAYS,
so it's a "proper" release.
And if people buy the stuff, you get paid.
If they don't, all it cose you was about 2 hours to type up all the
required paperwork and metadata, the cost of a CD-R and the postage
to, erm, Sheffield.
The yacht will still be in the showroom waiting....
--- In
Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dickson <mike.dickson@...>
wrote:
>
> My view was simpler; this is a hobby and we are never going to
> be able to buy a yacht on the back of the proceeds from Systems Theory,
> so why not get some web space, put up the tracks and let people have
> them for nothing?
>
> I put this to both Steven and Greg and got a fairly muted response from
> them both. One retort was that 'real' reviewers would never touch that
> kind of release and would only deal with real CDs. My opposing view was
> that free tracks would get us a huge amount of publicity and could
> easily be reviewed by people posting their ideas on the Internet. After
> all, the number of paper published reviews we got were negligible
> compared to the on-line reviews.
>