ethical and practical question on CD comp.
Frank
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I'm going to spin records at the Maine African Film Festival in Portland this April and the director of the festival asked if I would want to sell CDs at the event and donate a portion of the proceeds to the Nigerian child relief organisation that is being supported by the festival. I thought maybe I should put together what essentially would be a unlicensed bootleg CD only for this purpose and donate all money made to this organisation. Maybe get a small run of perhaps 200 CDs and what doesn't get sold, I could either trash or sell them to a few stores around town and donate that money, too. The director loved the idea. I'm aware that a bootleg is a bootleg regardless what's been done with the money but maybe in this case I shouldn't worry too much.I'd like to get some halfway professinal CDs done, does anyone know a place that's reliable, cost effective on such small runs and won't worry too much about legalities?
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www.mixonic.com
If you are worried about legal issues, you can opt to have 200 blank - but with your artwork on the label - CD-Rs made, and burn the content yourself.
I've done runs of 200 with RL Sound Labs on w. 33rd before, never had a problem, price was right, and they did a good job thermal printing the layout my friend did for me. I've only gotten discs on spindles tho, can't vouch for their packaging...
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As would I...
There are also some "real" and legit re-issues in the works by the way...
I shall now buy 5.
I'm assuming there's no difference in doing a CD comp or pressing it on LP? Harder to bootleg I suppose.
Dude, aren't you like, an ethic musicologist or something?
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