Krankschaft April Update

[Jonathan Smith]

I can't get to the Krankschaft page on Facebook either. Sound Awesome is
OK.

I haven't got a record player so LP are no good to me anyway. The CDs are
all nicely packaged and appreciated by me. Have you thought of charging a
little extra for lossless downloads? Like flac or wav, as some of us can
hear the difference? There are no production costs there?


On 2 April 2011 04:51, Steve Pond <Steve at doremi.co.uk> wrote:

> On Fri, 1 Apr 2011 12:49:38 -0400, you sent through the ether:
>
> > Have you ever
> >thought of releasing on vinyl in a limited edition run. Now the next
> >Krankshaft on limited edition coloured vinyl, with free 7", CD included
> and
> >free poster etc. Now that would really be of interest
>
> We'd all like that!
>
> I think we've proven that we like nice packaging, but the problem is
> expense. we could never afford a vinyl pressing, especially if it were
> to have a free 7" and a poster too!
>
> As a clue, we're still over £1000 down on the Flame Red Superstar, and
> we've released 2 CD's since then..
>
> The Song Poems free download had 200 times as many downloads as the
> total number of CD's we've sold so far.. so the question is, would we
> rather have many thousands of people hear our music for free.. or
> hundreds owning it?
>
> We are cooking up unique packaging for the next Krankschaft CD, but
> we'll probably also have some sort of free edition too.. "free"
> appears to be what most people want to pay for music.
>
> It's the price you pay for being an unknown band in a tiny niche!
>
> -Steve
>