Crowd funding for the new MEGADETH album

Here: http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/megadeth

If you have spare $10,000 you can even jam with Dave (travel to Nashville not included)

What a deal!

(smacks forehead) Oy!!

$25 for the CD. Hey Dave, I fart in your general direction.

$25 for the CD ?

And people wonder why some illegally download music.

Mustaine and Ellefson have money. Let them cover the cost. There's no need for big recording budgets these days.

Yes. I wanna know why they're suddenly resorting to this. They hire on two established replacements and now this. What the hell happened?

hmmm strange.

It isn't strange, it's absolutely following the new industry practice of using something that had a pretty noble principle and bastardizing it to the point that it is just another way to rip off the long suffering fans. Once again it has absolutely nothing to do with funding the album or providing an alternative to the big label system, it's a gimmick. £65 for a signed vinyl LP?!!! Mustaine can sign my ass!

Surely the price of the CD will come down ? I can't see them justifying that price at all.

Well said Boris.

In other news Dave announced the title of the upcoming album will be Bend Over.

Boris2008 wrote:

It isn't strange, it's absolutely following the new industry practice of using something that had a pretty noble principle and bastardizing it to the point that it is just another way to rip off the long suffering fans. Once again it has absolutely nothing to do with funding the album or providing an alternative to the big label system, it's a gimmick. £65 for a signed vinyl LP?!!! Mustaine can sign my ass!

Truth.  I think alot of these guys are crowdfunding their vacations along with the music.

I will purchase it when it comes out, at a much reduced price.

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This really isn't crowdfunding at all, just offering stuff at inflated prices. The album is being made regardless, there is no goal for fundraising.

Are they in such a bad financial way or do they just not make money from albums anymore and have to resort to this??!!! Maybe the record company does not want to put up the money for a new album, the risk being to great??!!
I thought that Super Collider charted well and sold a reasonable amount of copies.

This rubbed me the wrong way when Queensryche did it and it's not winning me over here either.

That said, as a merch booth, this isn't a bad setup and some of the prices for signed stuff aren't horrid. The Mustaine book in hardcover signed for $45? A little pricey, but hardly highway robbery when you consider the price of the book itself.

Now, the pre-orders on the album itself are absurd. Totally. Even if they were only going to sell a very limited number of copies (which I doubt is the case since Megadeth is still a marquee name), they're hardly going for broke making this album.

Since it's not a traditional Kickstarter campaign to raise recording funds, I think it's just a way of deferring some of the cost of the actual recording and production of the album. With Dave handling his own label now, he's realizing all the costs that the record company used to cover is now coming out of HIS pocket and it's expensive.

I'm not saying it's right or fair to exploit the fans, but on the other hand, noone's forcing us to pay either. Unless he holds the record hostage and makes us cough-up inflated prices, I'll get mine the same way I've been doing, either on-line or at a store.

MetalGuy71 wrote:

Since it's not a traditional Kickstarter campaign to raise recording funds, I think it's just a way of deferring some of the cost of the actual recording and production of the album. With Dave handling his own label now, he's realizing all the costs that the record company used to cover is now coming out of HIS pocket and it's expensive.

I'm not saying it's right or fair to exploit the fans, but on the other hand, noone's forcing us to pay either. Unless he holds the record hostage and makes us cough-up inflated prices, I'll get mine the same way I've been doing, either on-line or at a store.

That's a reasonable explanation.

Hope the cd will be a good one.

corplhicks wrote:

Yes. I wanna know why they're suddenly resorting to this. They hire on two established replacements and now this. What the hell happened?

My first thought is to avoid a record label. BUT, they'll probably go the Harem Scarem route and still license to a label after it's done.

Shawn Of Fire wrote:

corplhicks wrote:

Yes. I wanna know why they're suddenly resorting to this. They hire on two established replacements and now this. What the hell happened?

My first thought is to avoid a record label. BUT, they'll probably go the Harem Scarem route and still license to a label after it's done.

Super Collider was issued under Dave's Tradecraft label, but in a partnership with Universal
Music Enterprises, a division of Universal Music Group.

While nothing has been stated yet, he'll probably go that rout again (or some other big label) for this record too. No way is he doing all the recording, promotion, distribution, booking and touring on his own dime. Someone has to help out in that respect.

corplhicks wrote:

MetalGuy71 wrote:

Since it's not a traditional Kickstarter campaign to raise recording funds, I think it's just a way of deferring some of the cost of the actual recording and production of the album. With Dave handling his own label now, he's realizing all the costs that the record company used to cover is now coming out of HIS pocket and it's expensive.

I'm not saying it's right or fair to exploit the fans, but on the other hand, noone's forcing us to pay either. Unless he holds the record hostage and makes us cough-up inflated prices, I'll get mine the same way I've been doing, either on-line or at a store.

That's a reasonable explanation.

I'm learning through my own work experiences. It's just an educated guess on my part, but I can see the reasoning.

When my company owned a certain basketball team and we did their promotional work for them, no request was too big or unrealistic. The sky was the limit. We'd make back costs in the end. After they were sold and we now had to charge them for such requests, they began to realize how expensive it was. It's sort of the same thing here.

Metalguy bringing the level headedness.

Yea, it's a little out of the ordinary. Please accept this pic of monkeys humping instead.



L-R: Megadeth fan, Dave Mustaine, Record Label Exec.

S.D. wrote:

In other news Dave announced the title of the upcoming album will be Bend Over.