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Yeah and I bet the only reason Flotsam updated theirs is due to the lack of touring pushing you to purchase the merch. I didn’t see anything worthwhile in the way new offerings!
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I would think all bands should be doing that right now. People/bands using patreon and the like to get money from fans sucks. Bands asking people to purchase merchandise is sensible business at any time.
I agree there was nothing much on F&J's website and with postage for a single shirt to Australia $27.95 I certainly wont be taking up their offers any time soon, but I respect that they are trying to do something. Alestorm were offloading local shirts for their Download gigs which have been cancelled and obviously wont be good for whenever they reschedule, but the thing that pissed me off with them was that they seemed to mark everything up.
This has to be the best time ever for bands to start making money from merchandise yet some many of them seem to be wasting the opportunity. I know that bands signed to labels will often have those labels dictating what they can and can't sell, and labels will also want their cut from merchandise sold, but the time is rife for bands to offer incentive. Don't mark shit up, don't profit off postage, offer discounts on old shit, offer good pricing worldwide and create a strong fan base. It can only be a positive thing.
I agree there was nothing much on F&J's website and with postage for a single shirt to Australia $27.95 I certainly wont be taking up their offers any time soon, but I respect that they are trying to do something. Alestorm were offloading local shirts for their Download gigs which have been cancelled and obviously wont be good for whenever they reschedule, but the thing that pissed me off with them was that they seemed to mark everything up.
This has to be the best time ever for bands to start making money from merchandise yet some many of them seem to be wasting the opportunity. I know that bands signed to labels will often have those labels dictating what they can and can't sell, and labels will also want their cut from merchandise sold, but the time is rife for bands to offer incentive. Don't mark shit up, don't profit off postage, offer discounts on old shit, offer good pricing worldwide and create a strong fan base. It can only be a positive thing.
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Pretty sure the band owns this. It's been in existence since before they had the reunion and were on NB. Seems typical. The DDP store and the Exodus discography both and the Chuck Billy store end up with signs saying Back Soon! Or Coming soon! It's been years for some of it. All run by the same person.
redfly
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Yeah man. They still don't get it. the merch kinda blows. If you're gonna do it right...Do It Right!!
You have to spend money to make money!
redfly
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Exactly. If you make reasonable deals with quality merch I'll buy and come back. Otherwise. I'm not gonna be a chump.
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I suppose it could be worse, they could be one of these bands who are bitching they are short of cash and still have no website to offer people.
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I'm really surprised none of the labels seem to be doing it. They are the ones with PR departments trying to figure out how to make money from bands effectively not working.
redfly
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Same here. I've been waiting to get emails about being stuck at home and needing music. But the labels seem to be squandering this.
redfly
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Yeah true. but if you have a new album out, that site should be ready.
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Oh for sure. I cant for the life of me figure out what sort of fool took the site off line the week the album was released.
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Good on him, it's good to see he's doing well enough to be home.
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Well NB can't cry to me because I don't think they ended up getting their Aussie offices set up.
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Yeah it wasn't even a Corona thing (unless they saw the future). I'm pretty sure news of the new office here to scout more local bands and provide a better local service was announced back in about June/July last year. Then by about December they'd just stopped talking about it.
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Yeah it's strange that so few music labels do set up anything more than remote locations here. I think too many overseas labels saw what was happening here with our two or three big players that basically owned music in this country since the 60's and decided it was too hard to break in. Instead of starting up the labels here they signed local distribution deals. In the last 20 years or so we've had a lot of indie labels start up but most of them just collapse under their own weight. NB putting the effort into creating a local office here gave people hope that metal was going to be taken seriously since the other labels never really did.
