The Beginning
Entrepreneurs, Andrew and Brian Chaplin (Contra-Banned) have been involved in the music industry for as long as they can remember. In 2006, Contra-Banned set world history for being the first group in the world to release their full album exclusively on a cell phone messaging platform. Andrew and Brian had great success receiving in excess of 500,000 units sold. This new concept of releasing music inspired the two to develop something new that would bring back the “experience” of purchasing music such as the booklet, production credits and album artwork.
Why?
Although their previous release was successful, the Chaplins were not satisfied with the percentage of the purchase price per unit that they were receiving. Like many forms of music distribution, artists end up getting a tiny percentage at the end of it all for the music that they have dedicated time and effort to. Thus The VirtualCD™ was developed. A brand new form of online music distribution that was created by artists for the benefit of artists who, through Contra-Banned.com, will receive 80% of the purchase price per unit sold. Additional features can now be added to give even more of an experience such as: Twitter Feed, RSS Feed, music videos, lyrics and downloadable artwork to make a hardcopy creating the ultimate music sensation and experience for you and your fans.
How do I benefit from purchasing The VCD™?
The physical world of music distribution involves physical work and invariably money. By making a physical CD in a digital format, the middle men of music distribution are suddenly cut out thus making a much cheaper product for you and supporting the artist of your liking by knowing that they are receiving the majority of your payment. This also cuts out transportation costs to actually go to a store to buy music, now it’s all on your computer with all the necessary aspects and more with features such as: Twitter Feed directly from the artist, RSS Feed from an artist’s blog/website, lyrics, music videos and downloadable artwork with instructions enabling you to make a hardcopy of your album of choice should you choose.
The “Green” Aspect
Due to the fact that The VirtualCD™ is completely digital, there is no need for any physical manufacturing to produce the album. This rules out mass fuel consumption from shipping methods around the world as well as the fact that there is no physical packaging involved, eliminating the use of plastic and therefore reducing the depletion of natural resources to produce such materials.
