The Riot Before

We have a Kickstarter and here’s why

Adam from Say-10 Records has a Kickstarter going right now to raise some money to release a limited double LP of our early stuff.  I should have mentioned this earlier (it expires in 48 hours), but here’s why it exists.  

Pressing records is a risky business these days, but it’s a business that Adam is in and enjoys being a part of, and throughout the history of Say-10 he has always taken on the responsibility of said risk.  Before we broke up there was a plan long in the works to release a double LP of our early stuff, and before be broke up Adam was going to fund the whole thing and rely on touring and press and all those other things to work out well enough that he’d hopefully recoup his investment.  In fact, the reason this LP was in the works for so long was because it was going to be very expensive to press, and thus it was taking a bit of extra time to get the money together.  

But when we broke up it changed everything.  Because we weren’t going to be touring, the already extremely risky investment of pressing this record became way too risky.  And so the options were thus: 

1. Spend $5500 on a single pressing for a dead band and hope
2. Don’t release a physical copy of the songs (they’ve been on iTunes for some time now)
3. Begrudgingly start a Kickstarter

After thinking about it for a while, Adam went with number 3.  He’s never done a Kickstarter for a record before, and I doubt he will again, but the exception was made in this one instance because we were no longer active and the investment was so large.  

So here’s the deal.  The Kickstarter is for $5500.  That seems like a lot.  And it is.  But that actually is how much it’s going to cost to get 500 records made.  Seriously.  It’s two records, a gatefold cover, all kinds of extra money spent all over the place.  And because it’s limited to 500, there will be no further pressings (which are always cheaper to press) to spread the costs a little thinner.  It’s this one, super expensive pressing and then it goes away forever.  It’s more of a break even, let’s put this out there if people want it, sort of thing.  Make sense?

So if you do indeed want it, click here sometime in the next 2 days.  

Thanks.

-Brett

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   wish my job wasn’t ending...< 2 weeks else I’d have pledged more. These guys are old...

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   Thanks for reminding me about...project. Would love...$50...

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