{"id":407,"date":"2008-10-05T21:53:12","date_gmt":"2008-10-06T01:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/?p=407"},"modified":"2008-10-05T21:53:12","modified_gmt":"2008-10-06T01:53:12","slug":"my-album-is-almost-done-also-i-need-your-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/my-album-is-almost-done-also-i-need-your-help\/","title":{"rendered":"My Album is Almost Done! (Also, I Need Your Help!)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I still need to master it, but the meat and potatoes of my album is done. How did that happen? I mean, I know how that happened, but it still blows my mind. This album was eight years in the making and it’s just a little bit difficult to wrap my brain around the fact that we really made it happen.<\/p>\n

I need to figure out the best possible way to make this happen, but I’ll be offering this bad boy up for pre-sale, hopefully sometime next week. As a thank you to anyone who does decide to buy their copy in advance, I will autograph any pre-sale copies. That’s a fantastic incentive, right?<\/p>\n

Along with selling the album, I realized that it’s pretty damn silly of me to not have any merchandise. I mean, hello, my Dad owns a t-shirt printing company. If you can’t exploit your family ties for cheap merch, then what good are they? Except for all of that unconditional love and fun business, of course.<\/p>\n

Love is good. Cheap\u00c2\u00a0swag\u00c2\u00a0is also pretty fantastic.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

This is where you fine folks come in. I need merchandise, but it’s pretty hard to make it when you don’t have the faintest idea what should go on it. I’m thinking that blank t-shirts probably won’t be a popular item. Just a guess.<\/p>\n

I have a graphic designer who is working on my album artwork and I could probably make something on my own if I needed to. I just need a concept. Something clever. Something fitting. Something that won’t scare people (that means that this photo<\/a> is totally out). I was thinking something along the lines of “Hope Fiend” but that seems just a little too egotistical, even for me.<\/p>\n

So what say you, internets? Leave your suggestions in the comments. If I pick yours, I’ll make sure that you get a free copy of whatever it is that I end up making (t-shirts, stickers, pink fuzzy thongs, whatever). And, what the hey, I’ll toss in a free autographed copy of the CD as well.<\/p>\n

Thanks in advance!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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