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[Indja]

I sort of fell off the wagon re. AFP after WKAP so I haven't been keeping up with things at all - except the Bed Song, which is awesome like a muthabitch - so I'm confused a little by the conversations here. Have people been hearing them online, or at gigs and things? I really have been out of the loop xD And now I'm trying to decide whether I should try and find them on YouTube or something, or wait until the album comes out and let the taste of anticipation lurk for a while, a bit like whenever Seamy drinks apple juice and some of it gets stuck in his beard and he forgets about it and then licks his lips later in the day or I kiss him and it's awesome.

[Pope Totalfrog]

I sort of fell off the wagon re. AFP after WKAP so I haven't been keeping up with things at all - except the Bed Song, which is awesome like a muthabitch - so I'm confused a little by the conversations here. Have people been hearing them online, or at gigs and things? I really have been out of the loop xD And now I'm trying to decide whether I should try and find them on YouTube or something, or wait until the album comes out and let the taste of anticipation lurk for a while, a bit like whenever Seamy drinks apple juice and some of it gets stuck in his beard and he forgets about it and then licks his lips later in the day or I kiss him and it's awesome.

Wait for the album. Mostly only us Aussies have heard the new songs because she tested them out at a bunch of shows she did here in March. They are good. Better than WKAP good.

[Indja]

I sort of fell off the wagon re. AFP after WKAP so I haven't been keeping up with things at all - except the Bed Song, which is awesome like a muthabitch - so I'm confused a little by the conversations here. Have people been hearing them online, or at gigs and things? I really have been out of the loop xD And now I'm trying to decide whether I should try and find them on YouTube or something, or wait until the album comes out and let the taste of anticipation lurk for a while, a bit like whenever Seamy drinks apple juice and some of it gets stuck in his beard and he forgets about it and then licks his lips later in the day or I kiss him and it's awesome.

Wait for the album. Mostly only us Aussies have heard the new songs because she tested them out at a bunch of shows she did here in March. They are good. Better than WKAP good.

Eeeeh! I'm so excited xD Whenever I was still a rabid dribbling Kaiser Chiefs fangirl (I'm still a massive fan, just not quite so hardcore!) I got every album on the day it came out, and listened to it with my headphones on eating MnMs and drinking Cherry Coke. I'd have half the can and all the not-blue ones the first time round, then listen again with the other half and all the blue ones. It was rad. Thinking of doing the same for this

[CeeGBee]

Bob Lefsetz just published Amanda's letter to him on his newsletter list:

From: Amanda Palmer
Subject: Re: Kickstarter

hey bob

don't know if you've noticed, but yesterday i launched the 30-day kickstarter for my new album, "amanda palmer & the grand theft orchestra".

at the moment i'm writing this, we've reached over $250,000 after only one day of being live. go look:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/amandapalmer/amanda-palmer-the-new-record-art-book-and-tour

that's about $50k MORE than the scheduled recording budget i wouldn't have been given if i'd stayed on roadrunner...AND WE'RE ONLY ON THE FIRST DAY.
i hope we reach $600k or more by the time we're done. or a million. who knows? sky's the limit.

since getting released, i've been waiting to put out - on my own terms - a big, legit solo album.
for THREE YEARS i've waited....three years of tweaking and agonizing over the perfect online self-release system, the perfect management team.

when i fought to get off roadrunner (my old band the dresden dolls signed in 2004; i tore off and went solo in 2009), my main problem is that they had NO IDEA how to work WITH ME.

they didn't understand why i didn't want to spend money and energy on stupid shit, wasting time where our audience and potential audience WASNT...opening for vapid bands, putting our songs on lame film soundtracks to sub-par horror movies. our audience was too smart for that shit.

they didn't understand why i wanted to spend marketing budgets on what they considered "unnecessary" things....like hiring an internet marketing team, building giant web systems to showcase my fans' art and homemade videos....like spending money and time on the online fan forums.

and i was always told them: "REALLY? you don't get this? you don't get why it's not only important, but why it's going to MAKE US MONEY? ok FUCK IT, we'll pay for it ourselves."

so we did. i was happy to spend the money out of our pockets: this shit OBVIOUSLY had to be done. and we were starting to make money on the road by then.

i remember one freezing chaotic day in minneapolis, on tour with the dolls in 2005....leaving soundcheck, picking up my cell and asking a frantic favor of a friend in new york (the only friend i had who was adult enough to have a checkbook at the ready, i didn't have one on the road).

my internet marketing guy had called me, freaking. when we'd signed, the label had agreed to cover his monthly fee. now he was expecting an over-due check from the label, had been waiting six weeks, and was about to be evicted from his fucking apartment if he couldn't get ahold of $1000. i begged my random friend to write out and mail a check it to my internet guy, promising i'd pay her back when i got to new york in a month...so he could pay his rent. i knew better than to call the label. they'd just lie and say they'd cut the check. i'd been through this 12 times already.

a few months later the label told me they wouldn't cover our internet marketing team AT ALL while we were "between records". they didn't think paying someone to run our myspace and fan forums was NECESSARY unless "we had a record actively being worked".

they didn't get it. at. all.

THEY SERIOUSLY DIDN'T THINK THE INTERNET WAS NECESSARY UNLESS YOU HAD A RECORD TO PUSH.
they didn't understand the value staying connected ALL THE TIME, every day, from the road, from the spaces between.

and this was 2005/2006. not the dark ages.

but still....LOST. they didn't understand why we'd want to put the majority of our resources into connecting with our fans online.

were they on the road with us 300 nights a year? were THEY emailing & chatting online and off with these people EVERY DAY? fuck no. but i was. i knew. our fans were all geeks and gays and punks and young weirdos. ALL ONLINE ALL THE TIME. i knew the connected we did throughout the year would result in the sales later.

now, after three years OFF THE LABEL, and after ALL these collected years of talking with fans after every show, twittering daily, staying connected, singing hard, touring constantly, and answering thousands of fan emails....the result?

$250k in a day.

BAM.

fuck em.

seriously: i can't imagine why i'd do this any other way.

love
amanda fucking palmer
www.amandapalmer.net

p.s. i just finished "strayed" by cheryl strayed and absolutely LOVED IT. thanks for the tip. and now me & cheryl and pals on twitter. amazing internet is amazing.

This is why I was both shocked and VERY worried to see that
the new Rush album is going to  be on Roadrunner.

[Hayley Fiasco!]

I sort of fell off the wagon re. AFP after WKAP so I haven't been keeping up with things at all - except the Bed Song, which is awesome like a muthabitch - so I'm confused a little by the conversations here. Have people been hearing them online, or at gigs and things? I really have been out of the loop xD And now I'm trying to decide whether I should try and find them on YouTube or something, or wait until the album comes out and let the taste of anticipation lurk for a while, a bit like whenever Seamy drinks apple juice and some of it gets stuck in his beard and he forgets about it and then licks his lips later in the day or I kiss him and it's awesome.

Wait for the album. Mostly only us Aussies have heard the new songs because she tested them out at a bunch of shows she did here in March. They are good. Better than WKAP good.

You can hear clips of the recordings in her kickstarter video -
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/amandapalmer/amanda-palmer-the-new-record-art-book-and-tour

[absynth aura]

@Cee, Roadrunner's been taken over by Warner. So Rush might be safe. If Amanda was still on Roadrunner, now they've been brought out, she would have been totally fucked. Especially seems most of their international offices have been shutdown.

[Cirque]

Listening to the BBC version of The Bed Song now, god I'm so excited for this record

[klingi]

prepaid cards. u can get them at grocery stores and shit.

thanks for the tip!

anyway, a good friend of mine was willing to let me use his credit card. now i have a question to team Amanda:
Will my package be automatically shipped to the billing address (which is where my friend lives) or will I be asked for a shipping address later?

[ahauntingnearu]

grown man cry is being considered for this record? NICE.

i hope that do it with a rockstar makes the album, or we at least get it as a b side.

[RiverVox]

When are we going to have some GTO merch? I need a t-shirt! Must we wait for September? 

[Johnny]

I watched the kickstarter video about 10 times. I can't wait to hear the whole album. I'm backing as soon as i get paid.

[slyvia k]

is anyone coming to berlin?  

[Hayley Fiasco!]

prepaid cards. u can get them at grocery stores and shit.

thanks for the tip!

anyway, a good friend of mine was willing to let me use his credit card. now i have a question to team Amanda:
Will my package be automatically shipped to the billing address (which is where my friend lives) or will I be asked for a shipping address later?

You will be able to have your package shipped anywhere you'd like, it can be the same address you want to bill to or it can be different - we don't have access to your amazon account so here's what to do:

Once the Kickstarter project closes, we'll be emailing out a "survey" via Kickstarter that'll have questions such as "Where would you like your merchandise shipped?" and that will be the address used to send you your swag. Keep in mind that the Kickstarter will be wrapping up in about four weeks time and the CD won't be shipping 'till around September, so if you plan on moving or will have a different address if you attend school etc. keep this time frame in mind when you fill out your shipping address!

[Hayley Fiasco!]

When are we going to have some GTO merch? I need a t-shirt! Must we wait for September? 

My speculation hat on (as I don't actually know the answer for certain)-
Have you ever seen Amanda live without a kick ass t-shirt, poster or swag on the merch table?

[insignifikunt]

 


ugh waves of excitement keep washing over me!