# Find The Home Guard on…
Don’t talk to me about CD Baby. Really, don’t. A full three months after they received Forlorn Hope and Glory, they’ve finally managed to deliver it to a second company (after iTunes). Users of Napster can find it here:
http://free.napster.com/view/album/index.html?id=13443475
It turns out, upon an exchange of decreasingly polite e-mails, that since August they have managed to submit our new album to a grand total of three companies (it should coming to Lala “soon”). That’s a less-than-impressive rate of one per month. What baffles me is that they give three months as the period it should take to appear everywhere (not just make it out of the door), and refuse to investigate any inquiry until that amount of time has lapsed. What would have happened if I hadn’t asked?
Anyway, in related news, A Head of Steam (our first album) is still finding it’s way to new pastures. We’ve been on Amazon.com for yonks, but at last Amazon users here in the UK can join in the fun:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/A-Head-of-Steam/dp/B002GFY1ZM/
Let’s see how long it takes Forlorn Hope and Glory to appear on Amazon now that I’ve kicked up a fuss…
November 30th, 2009 at 9:30 pm
Hmmmm well what do you say to this. Apart from the fact that all these digital age companies. Are employing analogue heads to run them. And these are just a few of the companies responsible for putting great places. Like Woolies & Zavvi out of business. Where I could have a CD playing at home. In any piece of CD playing equipment. In less than 15 minutes after purchase. As for CDBaby. Tomorrow will be the 16th day. That I have waited for my first ever CD purchase from them. It will also be my last from them too. As I hadn’t realised on paying for their rip-off P&P. At their top rate. That they’re employing retired pigeons to deliver my CD. So I say 3 months to contact a digital download company. Comes as no big surprise to me.
On the other hand. What else can you do? In an era of so many Unsigned music artists. These companies have got you by the balls.
December 4th, 2009 at 9:12 pm
To be fair to CD Baby, we never had a bad word to say about them until they changed management recently and underwent a complete overhaul. We’re willing to give them time and see if these are just teething troubles, but for now they can jog on: Bandcamp is the place to get hold of The Home Guard’s music now.