Coming Soon: Pretty Eight Machine on Vinyl (Patreon)

Hey! I've been dead to the world for a little bit (but alive?) ... I'm working on (more) music for various clients, and everything is a bit upside down. I'll check in again when some of this dust settles. For now I just wanted to let y'all know about something that's right around the corner: P8M LPs.

First, how it works: Basically, Bandcamp invited me to the cool kids club where I can press vinyl. I deliver masters for vinyl and artwork, and then they handle the entire order INCLUDING working with the vinyl plant, warehousing, and shipping the orders. The thing runs a bit like a kickstarter campaign where they make sure there's enough interest. The shortest run I can do is 250, so if I don't get that many sales, nobody gets charged and we just wash our hands and walk away. If I sell more than that or make enough money to press 250 even though I didn't sell 250, they round up and send me the extras.

The number one most-requested vinyl thing is (duh) Pretty Eight Machine. Also, record stores these days, whew! Many of them don't even want to carry CDs — even when I prove to them that P8M sells — so that gets frustrating. Anyway, I tweeted out about this and made a reddit thread. I wanted to make sure that I could even get 250 likes on a tweet, because if I can't do that, I certainly can't sell 250 records. Y'all came through! ☺

Okay, great. I created a campaign on bandcamp and filled everything out with excitement, since this might actually happen. I waited and waited, and got an email back where they said no, that's copyrighted material, even though my "about this campaign" dictates that the whole thing will be licensed like the CDs were.

I told them I didn't expect them to handle the licenses since I already do that anyway, and they reconsidered. We've chatted back and forth a whole lot, and I've purchased licensing up-front (funded with Patreon money, thank you Patrons!). 

Now we're almost at the point where I hit the "go live" button. When this does go live, I'm gonna need some serious help spreading the word! This will be the first official "bandcamp-pressed" vinyl that is an officially licensed tribute, so that's kinda cool. ☺

But wait! This is Patreon, and most of the people reading this (oh, hello again!) are probably my Patrons. Some special stuff in store for you:

Remember how I mentioned bandcamp sends me the extras? The (currently three) people on my physical items tier at the time the campaign succeeds will automatically get one of those extra LPs. So physical item tier folks, unless you want TWO albums to show up, don't order one. ♥

I have a bunch of people on my $4 and up tiers, y'all are entitled to download codes. I know P8M isn't a new album, but if you don't have P8M already, when the campaign succeeds, I'll send you one! Also, if you do have P8M, I could gift a P8M download to your friend, dad, grandma, weird uncle, or whatever. Or we could do something like giving you a download of another album you don't have. I guess my biggest point with this paragraph is that if you support the vinyl campaign and you're a $4+ patron, you don't need to buy the digital; just message me here or on discord and we'll work it out!

Also in the campaign: if you want a P8M shirt and don't have one, there will be an opportunity to get one with your vinyl. I like to choose a different color each run; we've already done black, dark heather, and "charcoal". Maybe deep midnight blue and deep deep purple this time? What do you think?

Last but not least, I want y'all to know I'm committed to responsible spending. All the proceeds from this campaign go into fixing stuff up in my house, my museum, and probably into hiring a 68000 programmer to finally finish off the Sega Genesis cartridge album. And maybe some pizza 😁🍕

Hope this all makes sense, and if it doesn't, you know what to do! 👇