Deathwish Inc. is trying things a little differently with this release. There were no pre-orders (usually a Deathwish staple), no solid release date and no CD's.The label suddenly announced that the album was available earlier this week, but was only available as a 12" LP on three different colors. The album does come with a digital download card so you can put it on your iPod and ensure that it makes it's way onto the internet and numerous download blogs in the coming weeks.
Since so many releases have been leaked early—some of them months ahead of the announced release date—I can only imagine that Deathwish wanted to try something new. With Blacklisted being one of the most popular current bands, it only made sense to start with them. But there are some people that disagree with this move and assume that it's nothing more than a marketing ploy.
Whether this method is going to hurt or help Blacklisted remains to be seen, but at least they're trying something different.
What do you think? Are you more likely to purchase this album because it's strictly available on vinyl or will you just wait until it shows up somewhere on the internet?
8 comments:
I don't collect vinyl... And unless Blacklisted plays here anytime soon and has a CD. I will not be buying the album.
I usually don't bother buying CD's unless it's directly from the band at a show or if the band has something like their own online merch store. Otherwise the money passes through so many hands and probably wont even end up getting to the band in a lot of cases.
Sooner or later those tracks will end up online and people will download them for free. All this did was take a bunch of hype away from what is probably a really awesome release.
My $.02
I don't buy cd's or vinyl. I think it makes more sense to purchase vinyls with the download links because vinyl has an aftermarket where collectors hunt down the limited release/color vinyl. If you don't like the record, you can make your money back and usually a bit more by just selling it on Ebay. One thought though is are they hurting the later cd sale? Vinyl isn't cheap to make, but a cd is. Is someone going to buy the vinyl now and then not going to purchase a more expensive cd later?
Probably not.
All something like this is, really, is a little boon to the collector/vinyl market.
As far as I know, they're not planning a CD release and the vinyl is only available through the Deathwish e-store.
Like I said, I'm not sure if this is going to be a good idea or not, but it was worth a shot.
If they don't even release it on CD or iTunes-ish pay per download source. Someone is just going to convert the tracks to digital and up them for people to download for free... And I doubt they're going to do huge pressings of vinyl for this. Any more than a thousand or so and I wouldn't imagine too many collectors(most people that buy vinyl?) are going to be very interested. At least include a drop card for a download.
It's an interesting release method. And I'm sure everybody who really likes Blacklisted will figure out a way to get their hands on these songs... I just think if they're really doing this to battle piracy and leaks, they're delusional and it's just crippling them more.
I figured vinyl pressings(especially with limited color options) were a great way to offset losses that internet piracy causes on CD sales. Basically just get the people to pay for more than just songs that are ultimately just ending up on their iPod's. Vinyl is good. So are shirts and other forms of art and merch that exclusively comes with the purchase of an album.
Thats it, album is in the web...
Yep. That was quick.
My only thought is that Deathwish might be doing the same thing that went down with Axe to Fall. They may have installed a digital watermark on every download. That way, once it's out, they can trace it back to the person that uploaded it and publicly shame them on the internet.
That might be too much work, but I wouldn't be surprised if this happened.
...Wouldn't give them extra points, but will decrease the quantity of poor, but loyal fans..))) Anyway, here in Ukraine,90% of the hardcore punk music listened by kids where downloaded for free..I buy physical albums mostly directly from bands, on gigs.. and the chance that Blacklisted will visit us some day are close to 1%...although, i have a strong feeling that George Hirsh will cut, or hang, or shoot him self in the nearest future..i dont know why, by i feel so
this kids from fuckin ukraine
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