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We had an opportunity to speak to the very nice people at Hi-Sci-Fi last night, a radio program that runs on Friday nights in Vancouver on CJSF. Despite the technical difficulties brought on by a new iPhone (i.e. Andrew accidently hanging up as soon as he said hello), it was a cool opportunity to speak to some people who are doing a very cool radio show on cool topics. Awesome levels of nerdery.

So if you want to hear a dork sounding dorky and scared on live radio (*cough* Andrew *cough*), maybe they’ll post an archive. If you want to read about some really cool and nerdy stuff, check out the Hi-Sci-Fi site. Thanks Irma!

The Craft Economy is now up on Popcuts.com and we’re already #7 on the indie charts. Check us out  here .

Basically here’s how the whole thing works. If you buy one of our songs from the site, and enough other people buy that same song, you get credit from the site in dollars and cents, which you can then use to buy more songs. As you know our songs are free for download on this site, but here you’re being rewarded for your musical taste and trendsetting ability. By liking and believing in us, you can get more free song downloads from other bands.

“when you don’t create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. your tastes only narrow & exclude people. so create.” - why the lucky stiff

See, we’re just a little band trying to do big things, so we relish any attention we get, for whatever reason. EPIC FU is a very cool weekly web show that covers online pop culture. It’s fun and smart. Like us, right?.

Anyway, check them out. They mentioned us earlier this week, and pulled together a slick little package that makes us look fucking cool. And they show a part of a video where you can see Scott break his on stage intensity and swagger and break a smile on stage for the first and only time in modern history. Video is embedded below… Thanks EPIC FU!.

We weren’t originally going to release the Kill Bill C-61 CD out in the electronic realm, because we wanted it to be a neat thing for a few people (and really, Menergy is an unfinished, partially mixed, unmastered demo). But we’ve had a lot of people asking for a copy of the CD, and since we can’t really afford to burn and print anymore, we’ve decided that we’ll post the songs up on our music page so people around the world can have an opportunity to grab the songs.

Anyway, everybody, thanks for all your support and emails and well-wishing. We really do appreciate it.

The NY Times article.

The video

So after some humming and hawing, the All On C EP is available on iTunes. But here’s the thing - it’s ‘iTunes Plus’, which means it’s DRM Free and twice the quality (i.e. you can still copy the shit out of it, if you’d like, we won’t tell). It also isn’t crippled to get all nasty if Apple ever decides to close up shop, like Microsoft and Yahoo is planning on doing.

So, yes, Apple does get 30 cents of your money, but we’ll get 70 cents. If you liked the CD, and downloaded it for free but want to help us put out more stuff, this is a hopefully a convenient way for you to do that.

What an awful thing DRM is - Yahoo is cutting off customers from songs they’ve purchased.