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As an artist who performs my own material, I see no benefit to doing a whole CD - especially in my genre. The thing with comedy is - it's always hit or miss(those who watch SNL see this all the time). No one's really going to like everything you do - and with humor, my perspective after many years of doing both the humor and serious music is that humor is more selective when it comes to purchasing the product. Digital downloads are perfect for this market. As a publisher/record company though, I would hate to be bothered with keeping track of the pennies for mechanical royalties owed to collaborators on most songs. It would make more sense to write an agreement that would offer compensation only if a certain level of financial success of a songs made tracking the mechanical royalties worthwhile to both parties.