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To fight against my own self-serving interests
It's a constant fight. I would imagine many folks go through this same struggle. For me, I know it's tough. I spent the last ten years scrapping and fighting my way to achieve some measure of "success" with music. And every time, I encounter some less than favorable response, it's like a slap in the face that makes me want to climb in a hole and stop trying to help people.
Fortunately, I know better. And sometimes, against my better judgement, I climb back out and take more abuse with the hope and prayer that I will reap the rewards.
I believe that helping people is an essential part of your success in any field. So now and then, I have to squinch and accept the fact that I may not profit from something. In fact, I may Lose money or self-esteem, but I know that somehow... some way, I'll be rewarded. Some odd sense of what my mother always says, "what goes around, comes around."
This is kinda the case with my Celtic MP3s Music Magazine. Sure there's a wee bit o'prestige, a tiny bit'o'money and whatnot that comes out of that ezine, but mostly, I run that site to help out bands.
I've been debating what to do about compilation CDs. We're almost out of Songs of the Faire Folk. I've tried to get in touch with Cedric who's managing the CD, but still no response. Thus, I've been debating compiling my own Faire compilation CD, in addition to my Celtic compilation CDs that run with the same idea--a five buck CD to help introduce Celtic groups to the public.
Seems to me that's really the only way compilation CDs really sell... especially when the bands are barely known. Course the toughest thing about compiling these CDs is raising the money to pay for it esp when I know it won't be a hugely profitable seller.
Speaking of which, I have a question. What about you? Would you be interested in an hour-long Celtic compilation CD for just five bucks even if the bands are pretty much unknown?
Well, I'm planning on putting together Coventina's Well this weekend to be printed and see what people think about it. If it sells decently, then I'll consider expanding out from there and finally finishing some of these other compilation CD ideas I've had.
Posted by Marc Gunn on Wednesday, February 04, 2004 |
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