>Anyway, back to this elusive casual buyer that Trouble,
High
>Volt and, nut ass Bialystoker allude to...Who are these
casual
>buyers? What artists do they support? 
>

lol nut ass bialystoker i dunno what that means but anyway...

i respect your response and all but they support good music.
they just aren't the type of people in general that might
search the net or look groups up all day to find out about it.
but when they hear something good through a friend or on tv
they'll buy. and i'm not saying just hiphop. its basically any
type of music. 

maybe you are pretty sure it doesn't have any affect on sales
but if i've gotten about 10 people to buy albums that hadn't
heard of them by talking about them and playing it for them
i'd assume that if a lot of people did that it would
significantly improve sales.

a lot of these people wouldn't need me to do that if there was
decent promotion. i understand most of these companies have
cut way back. my problem with it is whats the point of being
on a major without promotion. school me if i'm wrong i just
thought that was what they did.

maybe my idea of casual buyer as they call it would actually
be 'casual listener' to me. they love the roots but not to the
point of constantly following them. and i do think they fit
in. but thats just my opinion.

>Believe it or not for all "the Roots only go wood
talk" Do You
>Want More Is gold,
>Illadelph is 475K, Things Fall Apart 900k, Phrenology
700k,
>Tipping Point 470k....
>Game Theory did 200k which -if you check any recent 
soundscan
>you will discover 
>that this-is pretty much the new hip hop reality (with the
>exception of the 
>aforementioned lifestyle artists and the Kanye bubble). 
>But now I got hear about the casual buyer from people who
have
>never sold one 
>record in their entire life (or received per diem for that
>matter).
>

if i'm not mistaken a few of these albums did get at least
some push. and they each helped bump up the sales of the
previous albums. up until phrenology i'd say.