Anyone ever deal w/ Ozium Records?

[justJon]

http://www.oziumrecords.com/ They're located in Sweden, and they just hit us up via e-mail, saying they want to "stock" our CD in their online store. The website seems legit, and there are a few releases on there I recognize. PM me if you like. Good experiences or bad.

[Worthless Willie]

I got that email too. 

[gatorsnot]

Received that as well and did not participate.  Sounds exspensive especially for vinyl.

[CanookieWookie]

I know the guy personally.  He is legit and is a really great guy. Honestly. I buy stuff off of him all the time. He is a real nice fella.  Just loves music.

Any other questions you may have, I certainly can find out for you.

[justJon]

Thanks for the replies so far, both public and PM. Bump to see if there's anyone else.

[chille01]

We use CD baby for all of our distro http://www.cdbaby.com/

One $39 fee, and they do the rest.  Physical distro to any record stores that want it goes through them.  They give us a page on their website to sell MP3's and vinyl/CD's.  Stock the physical copies in their warehouse and take care of all the shipping etc. Get your MP3's in iTunes, Spotify, Amazon, Rhapsody etc. etc.  Pretty much anywhere online that sells MP3 files.  They have an app for to allow you to sell the shit right on your facebook page or website (just as an example  http://www.facebook.com/thebelushis/app_155326481208883 .

Again, $39 signup per album, no other additional charges.  Has worked out great for us.

[mawso]

cdbaby is good for what it is, and forty bucks to get your tracks on itunes is better than a kick in the face.. but they don't do anything at all to push your release or to win you new listeners.. and if you use em to sell your discs you don't end up holding that much cash at the end

my band got a few copies of our last EP picked up by a different record label that's also a one man operation and also runs a mailorder.  he traded some of his vinyl for the CDs we sent in, and we were out of pocket for the postage, so it's not like it was some massive commercial coup.  but he managed to sell em and got us heard by people who probably wouldn't know about us otherwise, and he helped out with our promo too.

i generally think that if you've gone to all the hassle of doing a proper album or EP then you want as many people as possible who have access to an interested audience to be pushing it.