Record label employees often sell boxes of new promos directly to used record
stores. This works out well for everyone but the artist.
- The promo person makes money - tax free!
- The record company can pay the promoters less since they are making money
selling promos that the artist pays for.
- The record store makes a higher margin on promo LP's and CD's.
- The consumer gets cheaper LP/CD's
- The artists not only don't make royalties... they actually pay for the cost of
manufacturing promos! so they lose all the way around.
jp
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Subject: selling promos
Author: mrfliz@interport.net at internet_mail
Date: 1/29/97 10:58 AM
my basic point is that if your college station has a problem getting
promos from the labels they want, it is very possibly due to the
station's rep for selling their promos. it doesn't make any sense for a
label not to give promos to college radio; if i managed an artist whose
label wouldn't do such a basic thing, i'd try to get the artist off the