New Rotoscope Single is out
The new Rotoscope single is back from the plant and for sale! I’m still working on setting up the online sales, but we’re selling the 2 song single for $3. It’s already gotten spun on DC101 Local Lix twice in the last 3 weeks. We’ll have them at shows this month coming up!
May 30, 2004 at 10:56 PM
you owe me $2!
(please don't send me a dirty american virus
coz i love you really...)
June 01, 2004 at 7:31 PM
Question (in all seriousness): How do you economically justify selling/supporting a 2 song single as an unsigned band? Pressing it can't be much less than a buck a pop and it seems like you could've just spent a bit more time in the studio to get a proper EP. I can't see how you'd do much more than break even on it if you sold out. My understanding is you don't record in your own (free) studio, so do you have a deal on pressing or just a ton of disposable cash?
June 01, 2004 at 10:19 PM
you economically justify it that it sells for $3, and that's a requirement to sell 333 to break even. For this particular item, studio time for tracking was part of a sudent engineer's training, and therefore she selected/asked us to be her project. We paid for mixing and mastering (about $800 total), so once we sell about 550, we'll be making profit. It wasn't that we could have spent more time. We had two songs tracking for free. And instead of just sending it around for booking, we decided to press it. So covering all costs (printing, mixing, and mastering), we'll make $1200 or so if we sell out. And you have to figure promo copies, so probably $800 - 1000 in profit.
We've got the time booked in the fall and a proper EP will be coming out, hopefully before the end of the year.
And we don't have a deal on pressing and none of us have disposable cash. If we did, we'd have an album out long ago.