CD Baby Ripping Off Artists?
Aug 10th, 2006 | By Joe Taylor Jr. | Category: Editorial and Radio|
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Either someone’s out astroturfing for a competitor of CD Baby, or somebody must have had a freakishly screwed up order. Someone calling themselves John Miller is sending e-mail and posting forum and blog comments to just about every independent music website they can find, claiming that they’re starting up a class action lawsuit against Derek Sivers and that artists are too “afraid to speak out” about problems with the service.
Puh-leeze.
CD Baby is the one shining star of an e-commerce sector that’s notorious for crooks and liars coming out of the woodwork to bait musicians. How many tales of woe have we heard about online music distribution companies that failed to make payments to artists and labels? Meanwhile, CD Baby bends over backwards to make it easy to get paid — especially when most fulfillment companies charge twice as much and require a monthly pallet fee.
CD Baby works because Derek’s been focused on that business from Day One. While other companies tried to leverage their artist goodwill (and use their credit card receipts to funnel money into failed expansion ventures), Derek collects money from buyers and puts it in the hands of artists with no B.S.
Who the heck would have a problem with that?
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August 16th, 2006 at 2:55 pm
couldnt agree more. cdbaby has been great to us. made it much easier to leverage ourselves against bands with distribution. since content is secondary to distribution…we love cdbaby. havent made all that much money from it…nearing a hundred bucks…love em.
August 17th, 2006 at 11:35 am
I truly hate liars. From day one I’ve had nothing but success dealing with CDBABY. When I had a question I would get an answer.
My problem is I am sometimes afraid that CDBABY will be taken over by some big Major Label. I hope Derek never ever gets tired and sell.
I can not say enough but I am glad I have CDBABY as my on-line distributor.
Get real people and stop the lies!!!!!!!
August 19th, 2006 at 12:26 pm
Sounds like Moses Avalon is at it again (I believe his real name is Josh Melville). He has been trying to undermine Derek & CD Baby for years. He has written some articles bad mouthing him. Back when Derek started offering digital distribution, he implied that CD Baby’s new digital distribution service was going to rip off artists (He even compared him to Anikan Skywalker stating that he had fallen to the dark side). Recently he wrote another article that was clearly nothing more than a plug for a new music distributor that would compete with CD Baby. The whole article went on and on about how bad CD Baby was and how much better this new service (Who’s name escapes me now) was going to be. I once sat with him at a one on one mentor panel (Before the whole digital distribution thing) and he told me I was lucky to have made money on CD Baby and to get out while I was ahead. The funny thing is I have never heard of any artists taking Moses Avalon’s side in the debate. As for Derek & CD Baby, there are thousands of artists who are able to release, sell cd’s & make a better living than they could on major lables.
March 4th, 2008 at 11:44 pm
Count Monaco approved of Moses regardless.
There’s tabloid irony in this… Kinda like saying “x” famous person isn’t really what he plays on tv. Who cares? Either you liked the show or not. Get over it.
I know engineers that have worked on grammy wining albums that ROYALLY SUCK.