Physical Vs. Streaming

[Pentagrimes]

I love the idea of physical but unfortunately at this point I've neither the money nor space for it currently. Streaming all the way.

Even from the point of view of playing/releasing music, I'm not sure if physical releases are something I'd see much point in any more.

[Trev]

Is there even many places in Dublin to buy cds anymore? Only places I can think of are Sound Cellar, Freebird and Tower?

[Eoin McLove]

Bought a gaff recently and have a spare room full of my music.  Sprog on the way now too so I should stop buying... still buying....

[Juggz]

Is there even many places in Dublin to buy cds anymore? Only places I can think of are Sound Cellar, Freebird and Tower?

There's a place in the Grafton Arcade too. They're the only four I know of.

[Paul keohane]

A guy i work with has been collecting wrestling memrobelia  for over 30 years,massive amount of stuff.As life moved on and kids came along he ended up buying an insulated porta cabin  type of a thing out his backyard  to store his stuff,pure man cave.

[leatherface]

Started the year well 😩. I bought two records and a CD this week on discogs. Just can't stop, nor do I wish to. My wallet is of course lighter but I just have to have those physical copies.

[Makeshiftatomsmasher]

Ugh. Got this yesterday. This is the equivalent of some cunt pushing a shit CD in your face when you're browsing in a shop.

Hi
I came across your bands page on bandcamp and I think your music is great. The riffs in The Dread are catchy as hell.

I would like to help you get more listeners and fans. I'm a big rock and metal fan, especially the fuzz/stoner/doom stuff. I promote music on the website Reddit, using hundreds of accounts to upvote and push your music ahead of all the other posts, resulting in it being seen and heard by thousands of people each hour. Which can lead to new fans and additions to Spotify playlists etc.

I am willing to let you try the service for free, let me know if you're interested!

Thanks,
Karl

The future is not krieg.

Ha! I still sometimes get simmilar emails for Decapitated Jaysus, even though we've been finished for many years now.  Bad bots.

[Pentagrimes]

yeah the annual delve into the Drainland email account is fairly similar alright.

I've decided to sell off my record collection this year as there's no point in having it if I'm paying 100 odd euro a month to store it when I can't even listen to it anymore. At the same time the dread of how to actually go about doing that is wrecking my head now. Discogs seems like a pain in the hole, and while I'd love to sell it all in one go I can't see any of the shops around here giving me much for it.

[leoos]

I think promotion is necessary but there are ways that are acceptable and ways that are not,  in my view.  I was listening to Thergothon the other day on Youtube and the ads between songs are a pain in the hole in general,  but after the first song finished the ad that came on was a full fucking song from another metal band! Bands who think that that kind of advertising is a good idea are the enemy. Long live CDs,  tapes and vinyl.

You need adblocker on your browser.
I don't get any of that guff when listening to stuff on youtube
https://getadblock.com/

[Eoin McLove]

Yep,  I'll get on it!

[Hambeast]

I'd recommend uBlock Origin over AdBlock. Does a similar job but much better. Can be used to block those annoying fullscreen banners which force you to sign up or log in

[Juggz]

You can manually kill them too. Right click on anything and select "inspect element" and it'll show you everything which makes up the page. One of the windows has the page code and whatever you clicked to inspect will be highlighted. Just right-click on the highlight and choose "delete node". Very handy.

The recent versions of Adblock Plus have fucked it up completely. You used to be able to add custom block rules by adding addresses like http://www.website.com/ads/* etc, using the asterisk as a wildcard and it'd block everything in that folder. It also used to show you everything which the page called, all the external tracking and shit which didn't show up in the page visually and you could just add all the bastards in. You can't do it anymore and it fucking sucks.

[Hambeast]

uBlock Original allows you to add wildcard rules. Can see everything it's blocked on the page too. It also includes an "element zapper" tool which is similar to the element inspector but it'll allow you to click on the element you want to block and it'll keep it blocked after a page refresh.

I'd also recommend something like Privacy Badger if you're bothered by tracking too. Or Pi-Hole if you're a paranoid bastard and want it all blocked at the router level

[Juggz]

It's about three weeks since I put out some music and it has been interesting and educational to see how it has moved across platforms, to me, at least.

After some decent reviews in specialised blogs and a healthy amount of unsolicited social media sharing by people, we have a youtube video of the full EP which has over 16,000 plays since it went live under three weeks ago. It's still getting about 800 plays every day. On bandcamp, we have 2500 streaming plays. I think that's pretty decent, but I'm not too clued into what is good or not in these things. It's better than I was expecting, anyway. All this has resulted in, wait for it, 35 digital sales 

Like everyone else, the parasites weren't slow to show up. It is, of course, now available on multiple "free" mp3 sites in varying low bit-rate guises. What was most surprising was that the full EP appeared as a full youtube video a few days before we actually released all three songs, meaning either someone went to the trouble of ripping audio from the two tracks available on youtube and then ripping audio from the third track on bandcamp and then putting them all together in a video, or one of about five people who had the tracks before the full realease date jipped us.

It's enough for me to think that, really, if you're not fully plugged into streaming, you are screwing yourself even more than you are being screwed if you engage with them. So, I'm going to get them published to itunes, spotify, amazon etc and we'll see how it goes with them.

[Ducky]

I subbed to Spotify before the Christmas (got it for 99c for three months) and whilst it has some usability niggles, it's been a revelation. It absolutely kills the "thrill of the hunt", but I don't have the time, money, energy or space for it any more. I moved down the country a while ago and all my music is currently stored in my brother's attic. He was shocked at how much stuff I have.

Was randomly surfing through it the other day and I came across a German funk band doing a steel drum-led cover of Jan Hammer's "Crockett's Theme". That'll do.

I think for anyone with an inclination to listen to all sorts it's fucking great.