Full Financial Disclosure

I was checking inventory today and just wanted to tell you all what a wonderful job you've done buying our CDs!

We've only got 3 Be the Engine CDs left. Of course, there may be a few sprinkled about Madison's local music stores (MadCity Music Exchange, B-Side and Sugar Shack), but I'll likely be pulling those off the shelf in order to sell them at shows. We sell many more CDs at shows then we do at the stores. I think that's pretty normal for local acts.

For you out-of-towners, we do still have a couple available through CDBaby.com.

Will we print another run? Not likely. So, if you already own one, keep it in a humidity controlled environment and free of finger prints 'cause it's gonna be a collectors item that will make you very, very rich! You might want to invest in those geeky white clothe gloves that the archivists use to keep the skin oils away from 'the materials.'


Of course, if you can't find a hard copy of Be the Engine, you can always download it like all the youngsters are doing these days. It's not as scary as it sounds, in fact, it's pretty easy through services like iTunes, Rhapsody, Emusic and the like. Though once you start downloading, you may not be able to stop. Then, it's just a slippery slope into purchasing an iPod --> Buying earbuds --> Sliming them up with your ear juice --> Offering to let your friend hear this great new tune while shoving your slimy earbuds in their face --> Losing your friend --> Having to make new friends --> Who you then lose by doing the same thing.
Now, where was I?

Oh, right! "Full financial disclosure!" Here's how we're dominating the digital download world since our first release in June 2005:
iTunes $21.66
Rhapsody $0.07
MusicNet $0.48
Napster $0.69
iTunes-Europe $1.54
Total $23.44

Don't laugh! That's at least two pitchers of beer!

Anyway, I have information on which songs get downloaded and which songs get listened to over the internet (a 'listen' without a download gets us a couple of cents). I like knowing that someone over in Europe downloaded Perfect World and that Behind the Clouds has been listened to over a dozen times.

Did I mention that T-shirts make great stocking stuffers?