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	<title>Comments on: everything is now free</title>
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		<title>By: lynx</title>
		<link>http://www.emceelynx.com/2008/02/everything-is-now-free/comment-page-1/#comment-75</link>
		<dc:creator>lynx</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:20:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>yeah, no more physical cd&#039;s.  seriously though, in the past year maybe 4 people have bought physical cd&#039;s through this website and that many again have bought high-quality mp3 downloads.  compare that to several hundred free mp3 downloads and the thousands of downloads i was getting before i started charging and i figured it was time to read the writing on the wall.  It&#039;s just not worth the time to set up and maintain a store that no one buys from.

part of the reason that sales just aren&#039;t happening is that very few people are going to buy something they can get for free.  And, in all honesty, part of it  is the fact that the recording and mixing quality on these albums is really kind of shitty.  It&#039;s light years ahead of my first two albums, but still nowhere near where I want it to be.  It&#039;s just plain difficult to make music sound studio quality when it&#039;s recorded at home without dropping thousands of dollars i don&#039;t have on gear, so instead i&#039;ve gone the more diy/punk route and just put it out as is, and hoped people would look past the imperfections in the presentation and feel the content.

for future projects though that just isn&#039;t going to cut it so my big goal now is to find a better way to do my recording so it sounds pro.  When i get to that place I&#039;ll probably take all these old mp3s down, same as I took down Soundtrack.  In the meantime I&#039;ve left them up and made them free as a motivator to myself and so that folks like you that are down to look past the imperfections and show some support can still get &#039;em.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>yeah, no more physical cd&#8217;s.  seriously though, in the past year maybe 4 people have bought physical cd&#8217;s through this website and that many again have bought high-quality mp3 downloads.  compare that to several hundred free mp3 downloads and the thousands of downloads i was getting before i started charging and i figured it was time to read the writing on the wall.  It&#8217;s just not worth the time to set up and maintain a store that no one buys from.</p>
<p>part of the reason that sales just aren&#8217;t happening is that very few people are going to buy something they can get for free.  And, in all honesty, part of it  is the fact that the recording and mixing quality on these albums is really kind of shitty.  It&#8217;s light years ahead of my first two albums, but still nowhere near where I want it to be.  It&#8217;s just plain difficult to make music sound studio quality when it&#8217;s recorded at home without dropping thousands of dollars i don&#8217;t have on gear, so instead i&#8217;ve gone the more diy/punk route and just put it out as is, and hoped people would look past the imperfections in the presentation and feel the content.</p>
<p>for future projects though that just isn&#8217;t going to cut it so my big goal now is to find a better way to do my recording so it sounds pro.  When i get to that place I&#8217;ll probably take all these old mp3s down, same as I took down Soundtrack.  In the meantime I&#8217;ve left them up and made them free as a motivator to myself and so that folks like you that are down to look past the imperfections and show some support can still get &#8216;em.</p>
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		<title>By: Switch</title>
		<link>http://www.emceelynx.com/2008/02/everything-is-now-free/comment-page-1/#comment-76</link>
		<dc:creator>Switch</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 05:42:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>So Lynx, does that mean we&#039;ll no longer be able to buy printed CDs from you as well? I was planning on it, but I haven&#039;t had a secure Internet connection in recent months. It looks like there&#039;ll be a donation instead in the close future.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So Lynx, does that mean we&#8217;ll no longer be able to buy printed CDs from you as well? I was planning on it, but I haven&#8217;t had a secure Internet connection in recent months. It looks like there&#8217;ll be a donation instead in the close future.</p>
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