"The problem with pressed CD prices for folk music is one of sales volume. The cost of making an album in the studio and getting a pressing run of 500 CDs is typically £2000-3000. The cost of re-pressing the next 500 is about £500, but you're doing reasonably well if you even get that get that far. A commercial CD that sells tens of thousands is far cheaper per copy to produce, hence popular classics for a fiver in the shops."


At £250 per day in the studio?
£600 for 500 pressings?
Take your point about the reality of sales figures though. So its always going to be difficult.

I don't come across many of the very home made products any more - most look like decent product, thats not difficult to achieve these days.