Monday, June 2, 2003
Get Some Music From CDBaby
Posted by Ed Hansberry in "CONTENT" @ 02:00 AM
http://www.cdbaby.com
Ok, let me just start by giving a big raspberry to the RIAA. :razz: There. I have that out of my system. I love music but am increasingly perturbed at restrictions the RIAA is advocating that will keep me from playing my music wherever I want. So, what am I to do? I am not going to steal a bunch of music. That leaves independent artists. Last summer I purchased a slew of Aimee Mann CD's from her web site. She has told the record industry to go take a hike. I like her stuff and I'll continue to support her as long as she keeps putting out music like that.
Still, trying to find artists like this is tedious at best. So where do you go? CD Baby, that's where.
The first thing I did was go to the search engine, type in Mazzy Star and viola! Up pops over 60 CDs that match that description. They have a small army of people that listen to every independent artist CD they sell and they categorize it by mood, genre, "sounds like" and probably a few others. So I click on a group called Trespassers William, listen to their tracks in M3U format in WMP on my desktop, find their other CD, listen to those tracks and order both, right there! If you have 12 minutes, listen to those 6 samples. You'll probably get an insight to my musical tastes you may not have expected. :D
As another bonus to the great selection, when I go back and place my second order, they will give me a free CD, custom selected for me, not just something from a dump bin somewhere. Sorry, looks like I got the last Trespassers William's "Different Stars" CD. You'll have to backorder it. :wink:
It gets better too. This was in my confirmation email they sent telling me my CD's had shipped. :lol: You have to admire this kind of customer service. It reminds me of Southwest Airlines.
Your CDs have been gently taken from our CD Baby shelves with sterilized contamination-free gloves and placed onto a satin pillow.
A team of 50 employees inspected your CDs and polished them to make sure they were in the best possible condition before mailing.
Our packing specialist from Japan lit a candle and a hush fell over the crowd as he put your CDs into the finest gold-lined box that money can buy.
We all had a wonderful celebration afterwards and the whole party marched down the street to the post office where the entire town of Portland waved 'Bon Voyage!' to your package, on its way to you, in our private CD Baby jet on this day, Thursday, May 29th.
I hope you had a wonderful time shopping at CD Baby. We sure did. Your picture is on our wall as "Customer of the Year". We're all exhausted but can't wait for you to come back to CDBABY.COM!!
Well, my CDs arrived safe and sound, and the Lear Jet landing in our neighborhood didn't cause too much ruckus. ;) Both have successfully been ripped to my PC and transferred to my Pocket PC for my listening pleasure, and I feel sure the artist got more money from this sale via CD Baby than they would have had it gone through a major label and sold at Tower Records. :D
Ok, let me just start by giving a big raspberry to the RIAA. :razz: There. I have that out of my system. I love music but am increasingly perturbed at restrictions the RIAA is advocating that will keep me from playing my music wherever I want. So, what am I to do? I am not going to steal a bunch of music. That leaves independent artists. Last summer I purchased a slew of Aimee Mann CD's from her web site. She has told the record industry to go take a hike. I like her stuff and I'll continue to support her as long as she keeps putting out music like that.
Still, trying to find artists like this is tedious at best. So where do you go? CD Baby, that's where.
The first thing I did was go to the search engine, type in Mazzy Star and viola! Up pops over 60 CDs that match that description. They have a small army of people that listen to every independent artist CD they sell and they categorize it by mood, genre, "sounds like" and probably a few others. So I click on a group called Trespassers William, listen to their tracks in M3U format in WMP on my desktop, find their other CD, listen to those tracks and order both, right there! If you have 12 minutes, listen to those 6 samples. You'll probably get an insight to my musical tastes you may not have expected. :D
As another bonus to the great selection, when I go back and place my second order, they will give me a free CD, custom selected for me, not just something from a dump bin somewhere. Sorry, looks like I got the last Trespassers William's "Different Stars" CD. You'll have to backorder it. :wink:
It gets better too. This was in my confirmation email they sent telling me my CD's had shipped. :lol: You have to admire this kind of customer service. It reminds me of Southwest Airlines.
Your CDs have been gently taken from our CD Baby shelves with sterilized contamination-free gloves and placed onto a satin pillow.
A team of 50 employees inspected your CDs and polished them to make sure they were in the best possible condition before mailing.
Our packing specialist from Japan lit a candle and a hush fell over the crowd as he put your CDs into the finest gold-lined box that money can buy.
We all had a wonderful celebration afterwards and the whole party marched down the street to the post office where the entire town of Portland waved 'Bon Voyage!' to your package, on its way to you, in our private CD Baby jet on this day, Thursday, May 29th.
I hope you had a wonderful time shopping at CD Baby. We sure did. Your picture is on our wall as "Customer of the Year". We're all exhausted but can't wait for you to come back to CDBABY.COM!!
Well, my CDs arrived safe and sound, and the Lear Jet landing in our neighborhood didn't cause too much ruckus. ;) Both have successfully been ripped to my PC and transferred to my Pocket PC for my listening pleasure, and I feel sure the artist got more money from this sale via CD Baby than they would have had it gone through a major label and sold at Tower Records. :D
