01/10/2020
Somewhere on a cassette, I have an interview that Mick Jones did in 1982 on Radio 1 where he says that The Clash have "almost" broken even on the cost of the Sandinista! album (which had been released as a triple LP two year earlier). If memory serves, they needed to shift a 6 figure amount of copies of the album to make back the money they'd invested in recording and releasing it. But The Clash were artists. They were never a money-making operation.
The lovely DWR is still "in the red" following the release of this fine CD / EP / thing, a couple of weeks ago, but "almost" breaking even ............ and it's only taken a little over 2 weeks, NOT 2 years!!!
If you want to buy one of the 3 (or is it 4?) copies of this release which will push us "into the black" and mean we've actually got something to pay tax on this year, they're still available on ebay (and will remain so), via this here link - http://ebay.us/XOv1oh?cmpnId=5338273189
OR ............................... on Bandcamp (although if you get it via Bandcamp wait until tomorrow coz they're having one of those days where they don't take their 10% slice, meaning the financially poor artists make a few pence more on whatever gets sold for one day only ......... and again, the taxman / taxwoman gets his / her extra pennies as well!!!) - https://dwrmusic.bandcamp.com/merch/disco-king-6-track-ep
The Disco King EP is also available to download at Bandcamp now, as is all the stuff that was on there before, although it's been re-jigged into 2 x 9 track "albums", as opposed to the 4 "albums" that were on there previously.
Love and hugs
Freddy ###
The debut release from the delightful DWR is selling reasonably steadily (that's record company jargon for "we'll break even, but we'll not be jetting off to the Bahamas this month, barring a lottery win").
For anyone who isn't likely to bump into the DWR lad himself in person in the near future, as he flaunts Lockdown 2 like the punk rocking anarchist he is*, the CD is still available from ebay at -
http://ebay.us/XOv1oh?cmpnId=5338273189
OR the ever more popular Bandcamp via -
https://dwrmusic.bandcamp.com/merch/disco-king-6-track-ep
* Lockdown 2 will NOT really be treated as a joke by DWR.