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<p><span style="font-size: small;">We're recording new songs for our 4th album! Meanwhile you can check out our new website.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;">http://www.ahoora-band.com/</span></p>
<p>Mike Lynn & Richard John have really pulled together a sweet Country song here with Last Train. We wondered if one of our Mix Country singers would like to put their mark on this demo for us? If you are interested please do contact Mike or myself - Please have a listen, she's a cutie. Melsi x</p>
<p>Hello</p><p> </p><p> I just wanted to say that some may know that i like to try and get round to review and listen to both new and old work here at Mix. The past few weeks i have been a little slow. Being in and out of work, looking again now and other family related things aswell as being bogged down with loads of new music and vocal tracks that ive yet to start mixing.... there just never seems to be enough time and i miss it... i enjoy the music here and i like to leave my thoughts and spend time listening to others work..</p><p> </p><p> I would like to thank all the guys and girls who have taken time to listen to my work in my time here .. its always appreciated and im pleased if you enjoy my work and take a D/L to enjoy it more..</p><p> </p><p> I will be back soon to my reviews</p><p> </p><p> Thanks for reading!</p><p> </p><p> Dave</p>
<p><span style="font-family: courier new,courier; font-size: large;">I appreciate the response the Ep is getting, much thanks to those of you who wrote reviews.I have a second Ep waiting in the wings and I am really looking forward to releasing it later this Summer. Until then, please enjoy Another Summer In The Suburbs. The more you listen, the more you will enjoy it. Please share the music and feel free to share your comments!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier new,courier; font-size: large;">Peace.</span></p>
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<p><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vd3d3LmNoYWJhbmVzcmVjb3Jkcy5jLmxh" target="_blank">Chabane's Records</a> new release : </strong> <strong>AGONY SOUL TRADER - EP <br /><br /></strong><a href="http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&friendID=84385284&albumID=1177284&imageID=55591864" target="_blank"><img src="http://i21.servimg.com/u/f21/15/71/15/84/ast-fl10.jpg" alt="flyer agony soul trader - ep" /></a><br /> <strong> </strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong>5 ALTERNATIVE ROCK / POST-GRUNGE TRACKS from England</strong>. <strong> <br />Available on CD through </strong><strong><a href="http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vd3d3LmNoYWJhbmVzcmVjb3Jkcy5jLmxh" target="_blank">Chabane's Records</a> and as FREE DownLoad : <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vd3d3LmFyY2hpdmUub3JnL2Rvd25sb2FkL0Fnb255U291bFRyYWRlci1FcC9BZ29ueV9Tb3VsX1RyYWRlci1FUF8yMDExLnppcA==" target="_blank">please click HERE</a></strong></span></p><p><br /><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Agony Soul Trader:</span> <a href="http://www.agonysoultrader.co.uk" target="_blank">http://www.agonysoultrader.co.uk</a></strong></p>
<div style="padding: 0px 0px 10px; width: 85%; float: left;"><p>A friend of mine sent me a link to this blog and I thought I would share. I think many of us used Columbia House or BMG at one time or another. Obviously this was a brilliant marketing strategy.</p><p> </p><p><span class="blog_title"><a href="http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/91126">It’s a Steal! How Columbia House Made Money Giving Away Music</a></span><br /><span class="posted_by">by <span class="author"><a title="Posts by Ethan Trex" href="http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/author/ethan/">Ethan Trex</a></span> - June 21, 2011 - 1:32 PM</span></p></div><div class="blog_frontentry"><p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-91337" title="columbia-house" src="http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/columbia-house.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="160" />If you grew up in the pre-MP3 era, chances are you had at least one go-round as a member of Columbia House’s mail-order music club. Who could turn down the allure of eight compact discs (or 11 record albums or cassette tapes) for just a penny? It would be stupid not to join up! <strong>A few months of automatic shipments later, you probably ended up like a lot of members did: as a no-income 14-year-old who owed Columbia House $47 for unwanted Sir Mix-a-Lot CDs.</strong> Let’s take a look at a few lingering questions about the music club.</p>How did the Columbia House business model work?<p>The underlying model for Columbia House was a pretty simple setup known as negative option billing. Basically, once you sign up for a membership in a club or service, you start getting monthly shipments unless you expressly tell the club you don’t want them. Of course, you also get the bill.</p><p>Negative option billing has actually been illegal in Ontario since 2005, but it’s still legal in the United States. There are a few caveats, though. The Federal Trade Commission requires that any club or service offering a negative option plan must clearly and conspicuously indicate minimum purchase obligations, cancellation procedures, the frequency with which members must reject shipments, and how to eventually cancel a membership when they enroll new members.</p><p>The FTC really drops the hammer on any company that doesn’t comply with these regulations. In 2009 it reached a $1 million settlement with the online company Commerce Planet, which had been offering a “free” online auction kit while also signing customers up for a recurring $59.95 “online supplier” program.</p>How did Columbia House make any money while giving away so much music?<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-91350" title="columbia-ads" src="http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/columbia-ads.jpg" alt="" width="185" height="408" />Columbia House and competitor BMG brought in a tons of gross revenue — as late as 2000, the two companies were grossing $1.5 billion a year. But even with negative option billing bringing in cash from club members who forgot to return their rejection forms, Columbia House operated on a seemingly tight margin.<br /><br />Columbia House and BMG had some fairly clever ways to save cash, though. Until 2006, the record companies had never actually secured written licenses to distribute the records it sent to club members. Instead, the clubs saved the hassle (and the expense) by paying most publishers 75% of the standard royalties set by copyright law. The clubs argued that since the publishers were cashing their discounted checks, they were submitting to “implied” licenses.<br /><br />Music publishers didn’t love this arrangement, but for decades it was pretty tough to fight back against the mail-order clubs. As some of the biggest pre-Internet retailers, the clubs held enormous power over the music market. According to a 2006 <em>Billboard</em> article, if a publisher complained, the clubs would simply stop carrying their records.<br /><br />On top of that, the clubs generally weren’t buying their records from labels and then selling them. Instead, the clubs would acquire the master tapes of records and press their own copies on the cheap. Moreover, remember those “bonus” or “free” records you got for signing up for the clubs? The clubs generally didn’t pay any royalties at all on those, which further slashed their costs.</p><p>In the end, all these little factors saved a ton of money. In his 2004 book <em>The Recording Industry</em>, Geoffrey P. Hull took a look at the economics of the clubs. He estimated that the cost to the clubs of a “free” disc was only around $1.50, while a disc sold at full price cost the club anywhere from $3.20 to $5.50. Hull did the math and realized that even if only one of every three discs a club distributed sold at the $16 list price, the club would still end up making a margin of around $7.20 on each sold disc. Hull explains that retail stores were hard pressed to make a margin of even $6.50 per sold disc, so it’s easy to see how the clubs stayed afloat even with their massive marketing and advertising costs.</p>Did anyone really, really take advantage of those introductory offers?<p>Joseph Parvin of Lawrenceville, NJ, was undoubtedly the patron saint of anyone who ever wanted to stick it to a music club for receiving an unwanted record.</p><h2>In March 2000, the 60-year-old Parvin admitted that he had used 16 post office boxes and his own home address to fleece Columbia House and BMG out of 26,554 discs during a five-year span in the ’90s. He pleaded guilty to a single count of mail fraud.</h2><p>Oddly, the <em>New York Times</em> story on Parvin’s plea included a story of another scammer who was nearly as prolific. Just five months earlier, David Russo pleaded guilty to stockpiling 22,000 CDs using a similar scheme. He then sold the booty at flea markets.</p>What about Columbia House’s old rival, BMG?<p>This may come as a shock to your circa-1994 self, but Columbia House and BMG are part of the same company now. In 2002 Columbia House’s then-owners, Sony and AOL Time Warner, sold a majority stake of the company to the Blackstone Group. (Sony and AOL maintained a 15 percent share between them.)</p><p>In 2005, Blackstone again flipped Columbia House to the German media giant Bertelsmann, the owner of BMG, for a reported $400 million. After a series of further transactions, Columbia House is now situated in the portfolio of Direct Brands, Inc., a direct marketer whose other holdings include the Book-of-the-Month Club.</p>Can I still order music from Columbia House?<p>You’re about two years too late. The merged version of Columbia House and BMG, the BMG Music Group, quit selling music on June 30, 2009. (Apparently digital music wasn’t just some silly fad.) Direct Brands still operates a business under the Columbia House name, but don’t expect the latest music to show up at your door. The revamped company sells DVDs and Blu-Ray discs.</p></div>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">HELLO GUYS! SO IVE BEEN AWAY FROM THIS BOARD FOR A WHILE NOW.. ITS GOOD TO SEE EVERYONE STILL MAKING MUSIC AND LOVING WHAT THEY DO. IM 22 NOW, IVE GROWN UP SO MUCH AND SO HAS THE MUSIC , IVE UPLOADED NEW MUSIC THAT I WOULD LOVE YOU GUYS TO CHECK OUT AND REVIEW. ALSO FILL ME IN ON WHAT IVE MISSED! </span></p><p> </p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size: large;">I have decided to upload my entire new EP "Another Summer In The Suburbs" . I have only been able to upload 4 of the 5 songs on the EP. When I get enough reviews I'll add the last song of the EP which is important to me because it ends the project as I envisioned it.</span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: large;">This EP strongly evokes visions of Summertime for me when I listen to it. It came together on it's own as my EPs often do. I am really happy with the final outcome and I am hoping that you guys enjoy it as well. </span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: large;"> I have really appreciated the reviews, please keep them coming! Peace.</span></strong></p>
<p><object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="425" height="350" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/bBv9eb_KrgA"></param><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="350" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/bBv9eb_KrgA"> </embed></object></p><p>Why Can't There Be Peace? - Leonardo Taglialavore - Mantra of Peace music compilation<br /><br />Why Can't There Be Peace is the 1st song of 12 songs that comprise Mantra of Peace music compilation<br /><br />Credits below as provided by Leonardo Taglialavore in 2006;<br /><br />Vocals provided by our friends: <br /><br />Bob Lucas <br /><br />Jude Grover <br /><br />Gary and Maria of soundclicks "ARTYTOU" <br /><br />Sooty AKA Mark Sutton of soundclicks "EARTHSCRY" <br /><br />Mr. Karl Noonan of soundclicks "KARL NOONAN" <br /><br />Robert and Patti Boucher <br /><br />Marlon Kempmann of soundclicks "DOCTOR MEMORY" <br /><br />Jim Rustemeyer of soundclicks "Artificial Earth" <br /><br />Skootch Taglialavore (our cat) Lisa and Leonardo Taglialavore<br /><br />lyrics: <br /><br />World Peace, Forgiveness, Friendship, Life in a land of Peace, Healing, Peace, I want Peace, You want Peace, We all want Peace, Why can't we have Peace?<br /><br />Copyright L & L Taglialavore 2006 <br /><br /><a class="yt-uix-redirect-link" title="http://www.myspace.com/leonardotaglialavore" dir="ltr" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.myspace.com/leonardotaglialavore" target="_blank">http://www.myspace.com/leonardotaglialavore</a><br /><br />Leonardo Taglialavore sadly passed away November 13 2006. <br /><br />This video dedicated to the loving memory of Leonardo Taglialavore and all whom have brought about awareness of our want of peace for all.<br /><br />peace....</p>