CD Baby

[Stratmangler]

I've just bought a track by Ray Gomez from the CD Baby download store.

I've also received an email from them, which deserves to be shown - it raised a smile on my face :D


Greetings From CD Baby's Digital Gnomes!

We're the clan of e-Gnomes that prepare the MP3s you purchased. All of us, the e-Gnome parents and the e-Gnome children and even some of the older 'Analog' Gnomes, came out to watch as your digital download was prepared. Bit rates were carefully calibrated, wave-lengths measured, and electrons spit-shined with the hems of our smocks. It was so exciting that poor Pixel Gnome had to reboot!

Then, from high atop the Toadstool Palace, your digital packet was launched into the interweb, shooting through cables, tumbling through tubes, bouncing off satellites, hurling through the air via Wi-Fi at speeds well beyond imagining. Soon, a binary bundle of wonderful music (that's what we call an MP3) will be deposited on the shores of your personal computer!

Should you have any questions about how to properly claim the wonderful download we've delivered, please read our FAQ section HERE. We'll be celebrating with Square Root Beer and listening to your MP3 with all the 0's and 1's transposed!

Sincerely,

Sir Zero BitSnap, CD Baby's e-Gnome Emissary

[synsei]

How can you not love an organisation with such a sense of humour... Wonderful!!! :D

[John]

Yes CD Baby are great at those little emails Ray a really good guitar player

[Tim]

I've always liked CD Baby, but so far have only bought physical discs from them.

[jasonC]

the emails for physical discs are just as funny. :)

thanks for sharing,brought a smile

[mikecole]

Here is the physical CD email - they do take such exqusite care :-)

Your CDs have been gently taken from our CD Baby shelves with sterilized contamination-free gloves and placed onto a satin pillow.
A team of 50 employees inspected your CDs and polished them to make sure they were in the best possible condition before mailing.
Our world-renowned packing specialist lit a local artisan candle and a hush fell over the crowd as he put your CDs into the finest gold-lined box that money can buy.
We all had a wonderful celebration afterwards and the whole party marched down the street to the post office where the entire town of Portland waved "Bon Voyage!" to your package, on its way to you, in our private CD Baby jet on this day, February 20, 2012.
We hope you had a wonderful time shopping at CD Baby. In commemoration, we have placed your picture on our wall as "Customer of the Year." We're all exhausted but can't wait for you to come back to CDBABY.COM!!

Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Sigh...
We miss you already. We'll be right here at http://cdbaby.com/, patiently awaiting your return.

[zygote23]

What they don't tell you.....

Dear artist....we've just dumped all your lovely tracks onto SPotify so they can stream them. We don't expect you to actually make anything from this but hey thats teh internets for you and tucked away somewhere on our website are a few words to let you know that we'd be sharing your stuffs.

Lots of lurve...teh pixies.