Krankschaft April Update

[SUBSCRIBE SATAN!!!]

I hope nobody minds me commenting:
when I saw Jamun bring up the LPs, I thought "This is painful to watch,
poor Steve"
Of course I like Jamun's enthusiasm for vinyl, and that's a common bond for us-
So anyway, I am not trying to "salt" a "wound" (I swear), but it
appears from hearing my friend tell me about record shops here in
Texas and my local dealer, etc, that "kids" are getting tired of
downloads and many are hungry for a solid piece of plastic like an LP,
and vinyl is selling like crazy here again.
My local dealer Randy, who had and probably still is one of the best
shops in Texas, has basically gone "all vinyl" and runs his show solo
now on just vinyl. He does offer some CDs, but very few. Anyway, I was
just wondering how big Farflung is now, because I recall they managed
to get a limited vinyl pressed of that last one.

On 4/2/11, Jonathan Smith <smithjm77x7 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>>
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