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Re: Site funding and maintenance
« Reply #105 on: April 24, 2011, 10:51:12 pm »
I'd pay money to omni to keep it going.  I don't have much on hand though so if 25-50 dollars helps, then awesome :) I can't really go above 50, tho :P

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Re: Site funding and maintenance
« Reply #106 on: April 25, 2011, 02:44:44 am »
What's wrong with it? Do you have any other alternatives that are better (and free) if you find Cafepress so bad?
Well, I meant if you don't like Cafepress (because of aforementioned constraints), there is a lot of other alternatives. I didn't meant Cafepress is bad, but you may want to compare all the alternatives before signing up on one of them.

Personally, I have a Spreadshirt store for some reason, I don't use it though. I think they have less constraints. There's Zazzle too that you may want to consider.
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Re: Site funding and maintenance
« Reply #107 on: April 25, 2011, 02:46:59 am »
Oh ok I thought you thought it was very bad. Personally I haven't checked all options, though. I'll have to sign up at various places before finally choosing. I might also be looking for a place where I can sell some of my songs for cheap.

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Re: Site funding and maintenance
« Reply #108 on: April 25, 2011, 02:53:55 am »
Your songs on physical CD format would be nice :P

On download format you may want to apply as content provider on iTunes.

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Re: Site funding and maintenance
« Reply #109 on: April 25, 2011, 02:58:00 am »
Yeah that would be nice. By the way I had album pics before, but I would most likely redo new ones for the most part, because I'm unsure if I want to sell Ultra Beat or 1000 BPM to beat them all, for example <_<.



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I also had two others, although I never posted them I think.

EDIT Here they are.
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Re: Site funding and maintenance
« Reply #110 on: April 25, 2011, 03:02:02 am »
I'm slightly disappointed that I didn't lose The Game while looking at any of those albums :P
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Re: Site funding and maintenance
« Reply #111 on: April 25, 2011, 03:04:13 am »
I don't think I even knew about the game when I made them. :P

That reminds me, I could maybe re-use Hardcore Armageddon if I was gonna make an album with happy hardcore.

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Re: Site funding and maintenance
« Reply #112 on: April 25, 2011, 05:12:24 pm »
If you put those songs on iTunes(if you can) I think you can only sell them for 1 dollar or so for one song, so I don't think that alone is gonna save omnimaga. But it could be that you can buy a whole album for more, but actually I don't know it because I never bought a song on iTunes yet.
Buying a CD could be more expensive I guess.

As for the paypal thing, I think that the members under 18 years could maybe ask their parents aor older brother/sister, or friend to do it for them. Then they could pay it in cash back.

I don't know if you can get a lot of profit out of t-shirts and such, but maybe you can...


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« Reply #113 on: April 25, 2011, 05:22:07 pm »
whoa, those are really awesome covers O.O I personally would buy the songs just for the cover, then realize the songs are awesome as well :D

I always admired your music.

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Re: Site funding and maintenance
« Reply #114 on: April 25, 2011, 05:36:20 pm »
I don't think you have to have at least 18 years old to have a paypal. If you have your own bank account and/or credit card, well you're OK. If not, ask your parents.

And yeah, these covers are awesome, I just want to print them and put them in these plastic CD cases.

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Re: Site funding and maintenance
« Reply #115 on: April 25, 2011, 11:54:14 pm »
Nice covers! And even if you can sell them for *only* one dollar, there are probably a few million iTunes users, so if .01% of users happened across DJ_O's music and decided to buy a song, that would bring in a few hundred dollars.

EDIT: There were about 500 000 000 users last year, so that would mean that if .0001% of those users bought DJ's music, that would bring in $500

EDIT2: Some more stats... Last year, 5 000 000 000 tracks were downloaded and there were 8 000 000 tracks. This means that each track was downloaded an average of 625 times. Obviously there are track that will get thousands of downloads, but still, that is a lot of downloads.

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Re: Site funding and maintenance
« Reply #116 on: April 26, 2011, 07:42:13 am »
Wow, I think we should do that.  Some interesting statistics xeda.  And then it's not like "oh, this is my 20th t-shirt, but I must support omnimaga!"

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Re: Site funding and maintenance
« Reply #117 on: April 26, 2011, 09:00:36 am »
And I guess you huys can produce music till the end of yoir life. :P
Yes, this might work.(Although I must be honest and say that this isn't at all my kind of music)


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Re: Site funding and maintenance
« Reply #118 on: April 26, 2011, 12:17:59 pm »
I think that paypal donations are just enough. if each user gives 10$~20$ the money needed can be gathered in a blink.

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Re: Site funding and maintenance
« Reply #119 on: April 26, 2011, 07:31:03 pm »
And I guess you huys can produce music till the end of yoir life. :P
Yes, this might work.(Although I must be honest and say that this isn't at all my kind of music)
Note that in the last year, some of my songs were totally different in style, though. An example is
. But if you don't like power metal or video game style music, then you might not like that stuff either. Also I wouldn't even have enough songs of that style to sell them in album format anyway.
Wow, I think we should do that.  Some interesting statistics xeda.  And then it's not like "oh, this is my 20th t-shirt, but I must support omnimaga!"
The latter is why I would like if I could offerent different t-shirt designs.


What I think is that we could have t-shirts, I could sell my music and we could have paypal donations. The latter might be for those who absolutely don't want to buy something, those who can't get something shipped from the Internet due to parents, but still want to help.
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