Going off at a slight tangent, and I may be being slightly cynical here...
What the situation with magazines and their free cd's?
Apparently the label (or with more self-sufficient acts the artist themselves) have to pay to be featured on the cover cd. Now I'm not saying that this guarantees a great review because I can recall examples where this hasn't been the case, but they do tend to get the almost obligatory complimentary paragraph on the pages where they write all the blurb about the disc.
I can think of one band I like mentioning this situation and considering it too expensive to 'donate' a new track, but I'm pretty sure they have been on one since. I must be naive because I had previously assumed that they let magazines have access to these tracks cheap or free, not that they received payment for their 'promotion'.
PS Ian, Please find attached back-dated invoice for writing complimentary reviews of your music.
; )
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