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Originally Posted by tiktok

If you're going to record (and you almost certainly are), then I'd press up some CD's. It's only another grand or so, and there's plenty of places who want a physical product. Of course, these places may expect you to give them the CD for free, so I'd regard CD's as a promotional effort which might break even. If you can turn a profit, great, but every band I've been in has to give away a few hundred for booking agents, press, family, friends, etc.

A grand or so?

Why not burn your own CD's and print up your own labels? That would be far less than a grand.