When Everyband goes to make a CD, they will need to choose between CDs or CDRs.

CDRs

Pros: quick to make, cheap, and you can get them in small batches.
Cons: Retail stores won’t touch CDRs, so you can only sell them at shows.

CDs

Pros: Barcodes, shrink wrap, professional appearance, less cheesy, and retail-ready.
Cons: An expensive glass master of the recording is required for duplication purposes, and after all the trouble of tooling up for the job, the reproduction companies usually want you to buy a package of 500 or 1000 CDs.

It is a daunting task for an unknown band to sell 1000 CDs. (Just ask a CDBaby employee how many dusty CDs they have laying around.) They are hard to sell. What in the world can you do with all of the extras?

Here is my list.

- Make a mobile
- Play frisbee golf
- Fry ants on a sunny day
- Place a large dowel stick in the hole and use as a pizza cutter
- Make throwing stars and pretend you are a ninja
- Use as a mirror to signal the mothership to beam you up
- Excellent substitute for clay pigeons
- Take two of them and fashion a funky pair of oversized eyeglasses for a costume party
- Give one to a gerbil to use as a hula hoop
- Place a marshmallow and a piece of chocolate between two of them and pretend you are making s’mores
- Fashion a crown and walk around declaring, “I am Plastoman, King of Plastonia. Kneel before me knave, and I shall knight thee.”
- Give 100 to your mom for Mother’s Day
- Give 100 to your uncle for Uncle’s Day
- Drink coasters - both classic and classy
- Give them out for free at shows (ding ding ding –> Motor’s pick for good publicity)
- And if all else fails, sell a few occasionally and buy a round of shots for the band