My double album Hapax Legomenon is out. Would you like to buy it?

I finished my long-time-coming double album Hapax Legomenon yesterday. It's 1:41:25 of my kind-of life story, the song cycle of an INTP's adolescence and moving into adulthood. As it's my story, there are a lot of references and me/nerd-specific imagery. It's the personal album for people who don't like personal albums (like me, actually).

I was going to run a Kickstarter to secure a release on CDBaby and physical spaces, whereby preordering the album as a physical copy or as mp3s would get you the album and finance the release. But for right now, because it's a double album, physical production expenses, including the album art and so forth, is pricier than I like. This is because of the special casing necessary to make a 2-CD jewel case as well as the minimum amount you need to order at a lot of sites. So...

What I'm offering is a serial release of the album. Here's what you'd pay and what you'd get.

What you pay: $10. It's my production rather than professional production/mastering; I'd put my level of volume/recording quality and so on as something like a late '70s album before remastering. If you're into that, then you'll have no problem with this. If you're looking for gloss, I can't provide it. On the flipside, you're paying single-album prices for 1:41:25 of music.

What you get: I will e-mail you the album a song at a time every day for 20 days. Given file sizes, I anticipate these being 256 kbps mp3s, although for shorter songs I could do 320 with no difficulty. Each e-mail/song will come with all my annotations for the song - lyrics, subject matter, what all the references are, and so forth. It's like an Advent calendar but for songs. Not everyone likes long albums or digests them at once. I like long albums, but even this album is about the seventh-longest I own out of several hundred.

So $10 would get you the album and full discussion of each of its songs over three weeks.

If you are interested, e-mail me: earthdyedred at gmail dot com. You can also send me your e-mail address via Twitter (@earthdyedred). I am set up on Paypal as earthdyedred at yahoo dot com (as an e-mail address, not as those words spelled out). Once you pay me, you're added to my list of people to send the songs out to, and you'll get those songs once a day for 20 days.

I have many of the songs up at soundcloud.com/earth-dyed-red . If you have any other questions about it, tweet or e-mail me. I want to sell this in a way I have access to and in a way you would appreciate, so let me know if this works for you.