CD Sales vs. Downloads. Which is better?
From a recent Q&A on Weird Al’s site:
Tim Sloane of Ijamsville, MD asks: Al, which of these purchasing methods should I use in order to make sure the most profit gets to you: Buying one of your albums on CD, or buying one of your albums on iTunes?
Weird Al: I am extremely grateful for your support, no matter which format you choose to legally obtain my music in, so you should do whatever makes the most sense for you personally. But since you ASKED… I actually do get significantly more money from CD sales, as opposed to downloads. This is the one thing about my renegotiated record contract that never made much sense to me. It costs the label NOTHING for somebody to download an album (no manufacturing costs, shipping, or really any overhead of any kind) and yet the artist (me) winds up making less from it. Go figure.
Make cents?
Man the jib, hold the course, and port the starboard (?), motor-boatin’ sunsabitchin’ Danielson just sailed into town. Br. Danielson and co., all (sea) decked out in their sailor uniforms, found themselves ship-wrecked in the intense desert heat of Phoenix. This crew’s mission: to put on a production of the excellent new album Ships.
Apologies for the scarcity of posts lately, Drewl and I were attending our sister’s wedding and you know how emotional and inebriated family weddings can get.
That said, one of the things that has been slowly easing me back to Planet Earth is the the new Phoenix album, It’s Never Been Like That.
Fans of The Southland and other mellow 70s rock-pop stylings will enjoy this. I don’t know if it’s reception hangover, but this group of Parisians has quickly pulled even with Islands and Band of Horses as one of my favorites of the first half of 2006.
- Listen to Consolation Prizes
- Listen to Rally
- Listen to Long Distance Call
That should be sufficient enough for you to want to buy this album from 
or your favorite indie record store.
If not, here’s the video for “Long Distance Call”.
Listen to more on Phoenix’s MySpace page.
Can a human subsist on a constant diet of pelletized, nutritionally complete food like puppies and monkeys do? Adam Scott of The Monkey Chow Diaries is about to find out.