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(Shrug). Like I said, we'll see. I have no idea how it will go. I just have a feeling that there's 1000 people in the world that will buy it. But I'm not right usually.

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Well, apparently, 1,000 people in the world won't do. They need proof of U.S. citizenship.

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Some interesting points from the license:

https://getsome.zappa.com/roxy-by-proxy ... ense-text/

1) The offer is contingent completely on a minimum of a thousand people participating, otherwise, the offer can be revoked (No hold on your credit card) UNLESS:

2) One thousand people DON'T sign up, and the offer still stands (With a hold on your credit card) or it doesn't.

3) The legal language allows plenty of room to commit, waffle, or pull the plug entirely, which is strange considering the "revolutionary" nature of it.

4) Speaking of arbitrary, for any, or no reason at all, any distributor (or all) can be rejected as a distributor.

5) No creative marketing, unless approved by ZFT.

6) You can walk down to the local record store and sell them, say 10 copies for resale, that is, if any physical brick and mortar stores still exist in your area.

7) You are responsible for all expenses in duplication, mechanical royalties to the publisher and of course, marketing.

But Wait there's more!

Any sale of the CD on Barfko-Swill website entitles you to a partnership royalty:

"On any sales of CD product by Company through the Barfko-Swill website, Company will pay you 1/1000th of eighty percent (80%) of the difference between Eighteen Dollars ($18.00) retail and Eleven Dollars ($11.00) wholesale on all such sales for which Company is paid made during the Term hereof".

Heh? I was never a big math guy, but a distributor seems about as likely to recoup their money as Greece is to repay interest on an ECB bailout package.

This makes a college internship at a major record label look like a picnic. Too much pain to break even.

Ah, US citizenship. I am relieved of hard decisionmaking as I then don't qualify. Wise of ZFT to exclude, e.g., Europe where there was never any interest in Zappa's music to mention.

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Which is yet another reason why this "project" has NO chance in hell of EVER succeeding...

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Because of Obamination's spending & socialist BS, America and much of the world will endure one of the worst depressions in history in 5...4...3...2...

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Don't you dare......you still owe me for the amp

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You gotta give the people something good to read, on a Sunday

ZFT will pocket about $600,000 right off the top and eventually a dvd will come out and it will be overpriced.

Yeah, agreed. An astute evaluation of the outcome. So is it a pyramid scheme?? Not a very good one if it is...

Fucking brilliant! I'll have to reconsider!



How do you figure that? At $15 per CD, minus manufacturing costs, etc., Roxy by Proxy would have to sell about 50,000 units to generate that amount of capital. Realistically, it won't sell more than 10,000 units (like most of the other ZFT titles)...

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Because of Obamination's spending & socialist BS, America and much of the world will endure one of the worst depressions in history in 5...4...3...2...

Maybe Fishsticks is Gary, maybe Gary is Gail, someone get me a sandwich...

One fish stick sandwich on rye with trans-sexual roto-replicator sauce coming up, sir!

DiscoBoy, why not enlighten us with political opinions on your own nation instead of others?

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i've got it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_8sLDf6lYQ

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Oh, americans are so yesterday... this is the better show:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEufdBNMZwc

....the irish one is a bit.. different... (ahem).... the ZFT would have a better chance on this one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuT4Uw6Wp-o

They are asking for a million dollars up front. I said "off the top". Before sales they will pocket about 600,000 and then use the rest to put the package together. It does not cost anywhere near a million dollars to put out a performance that has already been recorded.

who knows, canada may join the usa before roxy is actually released [except they'd exclude vancouver, bunch of rotten cunts], but it's not gonna happen this month and you'd be rejected by gail... however, exclusive canadian distribution may still be available; my roxy roto-replicator is outtasight, and if you're ready willing & able to pay the regular fee, you can drive it across the border, dodge canadian customs, & corner the market up there

slime.o's roxy xqj-37 roto-replicator™ © will be available [for a nominal service charge] to all usa master disc license holders





™ © 2012-2013 slime.o, inc.

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hey discoboy, did you see roy when you went to register as a sex offender too?

You know....in this post-American world
Post-Americans everywhere want to know just what-in-tarnation is this "ROXY THING."
Seems so much time has elapsed that probably no-one knows what it is anyway...

NO chance in hell...at the moment. Though, once Obama completes or even possibly ends his socialist (another word for FASCISM) reign, it'll probably happen!



I prefer the Dragon's Den, too! Kevin is a nasty sum bitch!



I understand what you were getting at...but my point was that they still won't be able to generate anywhere near that amount of capital ($600,000), especially since the "before" sales will be almost nil and because I don't believe they will sell more than 10,000 units of Roxy by Proxy at about $15 per CD...



Fuck the reconsidering! Sign me up!

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Because of Obamination's spending & socialist BS, America and much of the world will endure one of the worst depressions in history in 5...4...3...2...

I hate to admit it, but this one wins the cigar ...

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The way I see it Barry, this should be a very dynamite show.

how ... just realised that I have to be a us resident now ...

>1. cost $1,007.00
>2. You can give the CDs away as gifts! (according to https://getsome.zappa.com/roxy-by-proxy-the-license/ )

I really hope that someone with the time and experience starts a kickstarter to get a single license (for all of us) and then gives away the bare bone CD's as gifts
just to spread the music of FZ (whishful thinking). I was considering doing it in the UK ("am I in my right mind ?") and maybe just limit the number of gifts to 200 or so (just to limit the amount of time if would require to handle the CD posting ...)... getting the money on kickstarter did not seem to hard but now I know that I dont qualify anyway ..

I can not understand how the ZFT can think they can rais money that way. All we need is someone with a single license. And by default we have already barfko. The worst senario for them would be that they sell a single license (maybe with money raised on kickstarter) and have that person give away for free the CD or everyone buys just from this single license holder. Multiple license holder seem only be required to increase the profit for the trust. If having/buying a license would be a way to make money for a fan then I could see "some" point of it but that is not the case ..

oh well ....