According to NPR (and the guy’s website) a drummer named Josh Freese has a rather fascinating pricing model for his new CD. It runs all the way from $7 to $75,000.
For that price, you get:
Signed CD/DVD, digital download, T-shirt, signed drum from the 2008 Nine Inch Nails tour; he’ll take you miniature golfing and give you a tour of his favorite haunts in Long Beach. You’ll get the foot or back massage, a private drum lesson and any three items from Josh’s closet.
and
Most of the above, plus you can go on tour with Josh for a few days. He’ll also write, record and release a five-song EP about you and your life story. You can take home any of his drum sets, go drinking and play with him on his Ouija board. Also enjoy a trip with Josh to Tijuana, take a flying-trapeze lesson and then join him for lasagna.
Yeah.
The massage, the flying-trapeze, and the closet items seem a bit silly. But the lunch and private drum lesson is a good idea. It’s rather like Radioheads ‘the album is worth what you want to pay for it’ experiment. Except, this capitalizes on the high end of the market instead of the low end.
Curious.