Digital Translation – Purchasing, release and a few thoughts
Hey everyone!
I’ve had some people wanting to get a copy of Digital Translation, my EP released in late 2008. Apparently I mentioned that the physical product was “Limited Edition” and people got interested in it. Firstly I’ll tell you how you can get one and how sales have been so far.
How to get a copy:
If you want to get a copy the first thing you should do is either drop me a message via facebook or send me an email at sales@chowderhawk.com. However you choose to contact me about it I don’t really mind. The price of a CD is $7 (Australian) plus any shipping if I can’t give the CD to you personally.
Physical over Digital:
I had a discussion with a friend of mine where he bought up the fact that with 5 songs on the CD it comes to around $1.40 a song. As much as I’d wish I was making $1.40 profit from each song, I’m really not. With everything included the CD came to $602.80 for 100 copies. So for manufacturing the CD and packaging it comes to around $6.03 leaving roughly just 14 cents a song. When I look at the work I put into the music selling it for 14 cents a song with a maximum possible profit of $97.20 it seems rather idiotic for me to have got the physical product made at all.
I’m not naive, I know people weren’t gonna just run up to me and throw money at me to get these CD’s. But if you want to know why I did it then read the next few sentences very closely. I did it for you and I. I’m not doing this for the money, I’m not doing this so that women and men alike will throw off their clothing in admiration me and I’m not doing this because I like losing money. The fact that I put my music up for free download on www.chowderhawk.com and The Pirate Bay was so that anyone in the entire world could hear my music for free.
So, after reading that I’m making a gob smacking profit of 97 cents and that I’m not forcing you to buy the music in order to hear it, I guess that you’ll want to know why you should even bother thinking about buying the physical product. I personally believe that holding a CD in your hands is infinitely better than just pirating/downloading it. If you really enjoy an artist then having a physical product that you can proudly say “I own this, here it is” about is the greatest complement you can make. My motivation for making music isn’t driven by getting that 97 cents from someone buying a CD, it’s from people saying that they enjoy listening to the music. So buy a CD, give that ultimate gesture to me that says “I want you to make more”.
That gesture is the thing that keeps me going.
To sum everything up:
If you have $7 and want a CD then contact me any way you can and just ask to buy one. I might be holding some more giveaways in the future. Also, if you enjoy the music I make, don’t want to buy a CD and want to help me feel motivated to make some more music, then invite more people to become fans. Just click that “Suggest to friends” button and go nuts.
Thank you so very much,
Ross