[kj] ESS remixes available on the torrents:

[Rob Moss]

It doesn't help make any money that's why!
Killing joke probably get something like 12-15% of the price TO THE DEALER. not the sales price. The dealer price is about half that of the sales price. So to make it simpler, maybe they get 6-8% of sales price. 

Of that they have to pay probably 20% to management and then god knows what else. So actually, making money from cd or digital sales is pretty hard work. 

You can make money in the industry by gigging ( see the rise in ticket prices) merchandising and licensing. Selling your tracks to adverts and movies pays considerably more than record sales. 

I am afraid 2-3 versions of a cd is necessary to make money these days. Especially in the digital age when there are so many illegal downloads. 

On 23 Nov 2010, at 08:21, bongo <humanhybrid666 at gmail.com> wrote:


> good on the band for trying to make a living, but ffs, whats wrong with creating 20 tracks and sticking them on ONE FUCKING CD???

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> "due to a lack of trained trumpeters, the end of the world has been postponed indefinitely..."

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> On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 8:26 AM, Mark Kolmar <mkolmar at gmail.com> wrote:

> The mixes ought to show up on the ESS single. Killing Joke never had a

> truly exclusive track for Japan, and this would not be the time to

> start

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> The links do not look functional.

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> I ordered ESS thru Amazon UK when the album was released. Finally the

> item was cancelled.

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> You are not missing much with the "dubstep" mix, although I'll try to

> be a completist. The territory-specific content seems like a gigantic

> step backwards. If the remix is so confusing to the marketplace, or

> licensing so difficult that it must not be audible outside the UK,

> well I'm guessing you shouldn't have bothered to start. (Underworld

> for example. And the Manics.)

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> --Mark

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> On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 6:11 PM, sade1 <saulomar1 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> > Sounds like somebody wants to go sit in a tiger cage and throw stones..

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> >  i bought mine officially,most of you robbing bastards of course won't.

> > http://musicoogle.com/file/killing+joke+european+superstate+youth+mix.html

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> > This is just one; I imagine it is elsewhere.

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> > I can't do this at work, but if anyone else is feeling ambitious and wants

> > to make the two ESS mixes available...

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> > I will, of course, buy them officially, should they ever be made available

> > in the US

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