CD-Rs are not CDs. They might look similar & play on the same equipment but they're a different beast entirely - as different as cassette tape is from a vinyl album. A home duplicated CD-R should not be sold as a CD, and certainly not for the £10+ we have to shell out for commercially produced CDs.

We do our CD-Rs on finest quality Ritex all-blacks, so they don't even look like CDs; we no longer use labels, for the reasons given above, so each unit is hand lettered in gold or silver pen. We don't use jewel cases either, just a simple sleeve with a folded piece of card, computer-printed on one side with the artwork, hand rubber stamped on the other & dated with the copy date. Additional artwork, notes, lyrics etc. are then put on-line or printed on a sheet of A4 paper which is folded inside the cover, also hand stamped with our logo by way of authentication. These disks we sell for £6 on line (which includes international P&P) or £5 face to face. Everything about them says this disk is not a CD - it is a home produced & lovingly hand-crafted non-commercial CD-R containing an exquisite music that you might find difficult but which is, nevertheless, folk & exists in this format because it makes pragmatic economic sense for it to do so. This is not a product, this a document of an ongoing musical process that is Ploughmyth International. Our website is slowly catching up with this, but do have a look at Ploughmyth International

For folkish digital distribution check out Woven Wheat Whispers which is entirely free & open to all & operates on a 70/30 cut in the artists favour. Many of our albums thereupon are entirely gratis, and all others retail at £3.75, which is the same price as the Manband's Back Into the Future album when it was released in September 1973.