Our Mission:

In an industry where:

• “A signed musician has as much of a chance of making the same money as a cashier at Safeway as he has getting struck by lightning”.

            (The Evolution of music by Neil Slade) http://www.neilslade.com/Papers/Evolution.html

• listeners can burn your soul onto a blank CD for less than 50c
• in a standard record deal an artist makes approximately $1.60-$2.00 out of a $25 cd, which they then have to pay back all of their expenses.
• listeners can download libraries of albums from the internet for free.

And a world where:

• Each day, 30,500 children under five years of age die of mainly preventable     diseases, and thousands more are ill because of unsafe drinking water and poor   sanitation (UNICEF : The State of the World’s Children 2000).
• It is estimated that around 1 million people commit suicide every year worldwide. In a typical year, this is larger than the number of people who die through murder and war.  (http://www.blurtit.com/q536700.html)

• Globally, UNICEF estimates that one million children are forced, sold, abducted or coerced into the commercial sex trade each year.

We believe that if people are willing to spread the word about our music, we will:

• eliminate the need for a record company
• make a fairer share per CD,
• ensure the survival of A Sound Mind (fund future record production, national and international tours)

Therefore in return, the share that would normally be paid to a record company, retailer and a distributor etc… we will use to create meaningful change to the lives of people in need beyond our immediate sphere of influence. 

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