How will pearl jam sell their new album?

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xxxxx Posts: 14
edited May 2008 in The Porch
What do you guess, the goods section? free download a la NIN'S? Or pull a EAGLES and sell it at WAL-MART?
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  • swallowedwords
    swallowedwords Posts: 1,093
    Goods section first, then iTunes and all stores
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  • mole1985
    mole1985 Posts: 1,119
    With a market stall run by stone and jeff in Switerzland in august...
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  • xxxxx
    xxxxx Posts: 14
    or maybe out the back of the biodeisel bus!!!!!
  • fuck
    fuck Posts: 4,069
    I don't see Pearl Jam doing a radiohead or NIN or anything in terms of free download even though that would be really cool.

    It'll probably be for sale the same way Avocado was.
  • bernmodi
    bernmodi Posts: 631
    mole1985 wrote:
    With a market stall run by stone and jeff in Switerzland in august...


    Yeah! and I'll help out with some shifts too.
  • Julien
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    I just hope they will not release it ONLY as a download. I love having a real CD with a booklet, etc. Especially PJ ones.
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  • bernmodi
    bernmodi Posts: 631
    Julien wrote:
    I just hope they will not release it ONLY as a download. I love having a real CD with a booklet, etc. Especially PJ ones.

    What he said! And my children are still too young to explain this whole download stuff to me anyway.
  • aNiMaL
    aNiMaL Posts: 7,117
    Julien wrote:
    I just hope they will not release it ONLY as a download. I love having a real CD with a booklet, etc. Especially PJ ones.
    I second that!
  • wwfairfield
    wwfairfield Posts: 216
    Julien wrote:
    I just hope they will not release it ONLY as a download. I love having a real CD with a booklet, etc. Especially PJ ones.



    this machine likes to pad its' sales total by releasing multiple versions so their will be a download version, a pre-sale ten club version , a retail version , an import version with bonus track , then they will hit us with the vinyl version later ......
    so the average chump like me ends up buying 4 copies of a crappy album like pearl jam....but... their numbers look good!!!!
  • TrixieCat
    TrixieCat Posts: 5,756
    wwfairfield wrote:
    this machine likes to pad its' sales total by releasing multiple versions so their will be a download version, a pre-sale ten club version , a retail version , an import version with bonus track , then they will hit us with the vinyl version later ......
    so the average chump like me ends up buying 4 copies of a crappy album like pearl jam....but... their numbers look good!!!!
    haha...the machine.
    :p
    They are lucky to get me to buy one. :)
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  • Rhinocerous Surprise
    Rhinocerous Surprise Posts: 4,423
    Cheaply.




    One hopes, anyway.
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  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    via all means necessary so to make the best profit possible.

    nothings 'free' these days.... especially fame... as that woman from the Fame movie once said

    "fame costs... and right here is where you start payin' "

    nobody can argue with the woman from Fame
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  • mattosborne
    mattosborne Posts: 339
    I think it'll be a traditional release. That's not to say they won't make something available on the website the street date, like a single obviously or some other songs.
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  • 12345AGNST1
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    I'll be pretty sad if they only make it released online. Did you guys ever smell the booklet for avocado when it was brand spankin new? It smelled absolutely incredible, like and oil painting or something.
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  • nocodelover22
    nocodelover22 Posts: 108
    12345AGNST1 wrote:
    Did you guys ever smell the booklet for avocado when it was brand spankin new? It smelled absolutely incredible, like and oil painting or something.

    No, I most certainly did not smell the Avocado booklet.

    But now I wish I had.
  • Carlos D
    Carlos D Posts: 638
    I'll be disgusted by an online release,the reason I love them so much is the effort that goes into the artwork and the album concept as a whole.... and the smells.Yield smelled great....and yes,I smelled the Avacado booklet,one of the few good things about that album:D
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  • JaneNY
    JaneNY Posts: 4,438
    I like what NIN did. With Ghosts you could dowload the first 9 tracks for free, or purchase the rest for $5, or pre-order CDs for $10 with immediate access to the download, or a deluxe version for $75 that came with a cool book, plus multi-track files so people can remix if desired, or a $300 version that I forget what all had in it because I didn't get that. With The Slip, Trent released it for free, and put it up like 12 hours after it was finished being mixed.

    I'd like to see PJ have an online download, followed up by CDs that you can order. Artwork is cool yeah, but I mainly listen to the music; once I've looked at the booklet a few times, it stays in the case. Also, having it up online first might circumvents leaks, if its made available right away. Then the artist has more control over when people hear it, and what quality copy they are hearing. This is probably easier when you're doing it yourself, as opposed to working with a label I'm sure.
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