"Laurence Payne" wrote ...
This isn't a recording contract. You're buying a promotion
service and CD manufacturing.

Indeed.

Check just what that $1-per-CD covers. CDs packaged and
wrapped, ready for sale? Or something else? How does
that compare with the cost of production if you bought direct?

Even if I were sold on this promoter/label, I would certainly
shop around independently for replication/packaging if I were
paying for it. Why should the promoter/label have a stake in it?

After the year is up, who retains ownership of the product?

And a few dozen other questions which would make it valuable
to have an entertainment attorney on the artists' side. Any of the
band members have parents/relatives/friends who are attorneys?