My crummy old band made a CD a few years ago which was put out by a tiny American label which had been set up by this couple who were basically doing it for the love of music.
I never found out how many they pressed but each member of the band still has a fair number of copies under their bed and get the impression that the label still has a few hundred.
The guitarist emailed me today to tell me that two sellers on Amazon
are selling copies for around the £30 mark!
How can this be? No-one bought it first time round and I can't imagine anyone wants to hear it now and if they did I'd gladly hand them a copy for free. My question is how did these sellers arrive at that price?
― Louie_Strychnine (Louie Strychnine), Friday, 7 July 2006 10:28 (nineteen years ago)
Put your CDs on Amazon, too, and underbid them.
― Custard Subsidence (kate), Friday, 7 July 2006 10:33 (nineteen years ago)
Yeah -- sellers choose the price. If no one is selling something on Amazon, the typical tactic is to post a riduculous price. If others have it, you'll quickly be underbid (and in fact you sometimes see things for sale where people are selling the CD for $50 despite everyone else selling it for $0.99). But! Sometimes people actually do pay ridiculous prices for CDs! I've sold two not horribly rare CDs for over $30 each just because no one else had one listed and someone really really wanted it.
― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 7 July 2006 15:42 (nineteen years ago)
The name of the band is The Mighty Stars. I think the website is still up and it's got a few songs on it if you want to listen to them,
http://www.themightystars.comI think there are three songs from this CD up there (Let's Play, Small Wonder and Suzanne), the rest are recordings from a year later.
Half the songs on this CD are terrible. I think we had two days in the studio, we were going to do three songs and then at the last minute we decided to do five.
We were youngsters so we hadn't really learnt how to arrange our songs properly, after hearing the results we decided to work harder on the arrangements and went at our songs with a big hacksaw in order to get rid of any superfluous sections/parts. So I guess we did at least learn a few things from this.
I liked one song that we did that session, Let's Play was the most dumbass rock n roll and we knocked it off in one take - it seems to have much more energy and spunk than the ones that were a bit more laboured over.
As for people selling this CD for a ridiculous price on Amazon, I'm not too fussed about that, I can't imagine there's anyone out there who would be daft enough to pay even £3 for this disc!
― Louie_Strychnine (Louie Strychnine), Monday, 10 July 2006 10:53 (nineteen years ago)