Fat Wreck to Drop CD Prices 2009-04-29 by Athom EMERITUS | 29 Comments |
Fat Wreck Chords, the label run by NOFX frontman/bassist Fat Mike, has announced that the label is slashing prices on its products in the United States resulting in their entire catalog being priced under $10 (USD).
"This is not a sale. This is how much this CD costs, and not only that, but EVERY CD on Fat Wreck Chords will now be under $10 and most will be under $8. No, we are not crazy. We just think that having a very low CD price is a fair way for scene supporting music fans to support their favorite independent bands and labels. Sound crazy? I think it sounds reasonable. We make less profit, but bands hopefully will sell more CDs to more people, which is why we started doing this in the first place."
Fat Wreck is home to bands such as NOFX, Strung Out, Loved Ones, Dillinger Four, and the Lawrence Arms and has released albums from such notable punk acts as Anti-Flag, Against Me!, Propagandhi, and Rise Against.
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Hopefully others will follow this but i doubt itThis Message Edited On 04.29.09
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would be nice.This Message Edited On 04.29.09
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though i doubt this would increas cd sales, why pay 8 bucks when you can download for free?
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i like owning something physical
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cause a hard copy has its own aesthetic and clearance-rack prices are the CDs i run to first
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but thats us people, lets just face it, not everbody spends big amount of money on records anymore
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Good, some great bands on this label.
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I think this will encourage more people to buy CDs.
If every label did this, there would be a fair decrease in the amount of pirating.
Big labels are selling their CDs for $15 and wondering why people are pirating them for free instead. If downloading is such a big deal that they have to start suing 13 year old kids perhaps they should take a different approach such as what Fat Wreck is doing now.
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No kidding.
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cds nowadays are just so damn expensive especially since the quality of music coming out isn't very good. i really hope other labels see this as an example and follow suit. i would then start buying cds again.
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Ironic how I downloaded their discog last week.
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Fat Mike is probably one of my heroes. A great man.
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Good decision, kind of like reverse economics. Naturally, prices would go up as sales went down, but this works with the system I think. Let's hope it works out...I'd love to see CD sales go up for the sake of bands.
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A-w-e-s-o-m-e.
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this is going to discouage people from buying CDs.
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yeah seriously i dont know what fat wreck were thinking probably one of the worst business decisions in history
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tbh CD's have higher audio quality than anything from a downloading site. sounds like a good move...
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This is awesome news. I hope it benefits them.
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tbh CD's have higher audio quality than anything from a downloading site. sounds like a good move... not true
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Fat Wreck is a great label. Very progressive business practices (not including this new price drop) and one of the best business models of any label, major or not.
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a lot of sites will host CD quality material, or even upgrade to FLAC format.
that being said, I will still buy CD's to support and for aesthetic appeal.
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I'm definitely going out and getting some of this stuff. This is wonderful; go fat wreck.
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Good idea that was implemented about 5 years too late. CDs are effectively dead.
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yeah, but who the hell wants to spend hours downloading an album cause it's in FLAC format? those files are gigantic.
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"yeah, but who the hell wants to spend hours downloading an album cause it's in FLAC format? those files are gigantic."
Most hover around 300MB average - v0 of the same CD would be around 90MB. It's not HOURS. If we're talking 24/96 vinyl FLAC rips, THOSE are ridiculous. They easily touch 1GB.
"tbh CD's have higher audio quality than anything from a downloading site. sounds like a good move..."
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"not true"
Uhh... what?
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yknow what i found the other day? the Chase This Light (JEW) that i downloaded legally from itunes was 128kbps. how disgusting is that? only noticed when i got their discog and the versions there were 192. pay money, get shit quality? that how it works?
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haha!!!
i laugh when i hear americans complaining about cd prices!!!
lots of cds in australia are for around $20-$30
that would be around $20-$25 u.s. dollars
this is sooo cool of fat wreck chords to put their prices down, and hopefully the prices are dropped in aus!
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Excellent news, that works out at about £5-7 per CD doesn't it? Beats paying 13 quid for the last Lagwagon album anyway.
Hopefully other labels take notice, I'd be much more enclined to buy albums rather than pirate them if everything was this kinda price.
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I got WOE and Surfer.
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