And we're off...

Just finished the final part (and biggest if) of our album release plan: the band's entire album, as a direct download, for free, off the band's website (actually, it's not a single site, since we've broken the parts up and distributed them across multiple providers for reliability/scalability -- my CS profs would be proud). Help yourself to it here.

So there it is. I suppose personally this ranks among the biggest gambles I've ever made in my life; all my savings went into the album's production. So even if the plan fails miserably, at least I can say I put my money where my mouth is; it's one thing to give away something that someone else (i.e. a label) paid for, and it's another thing entirely to give away something you paid for.

Speaking of mouths, I got to run mine for a good while earlier today on this week's segment of The Works with host John Moe, discussing the album's release strategy. It's a lot of stuff (depending on how he's putting it together) that I intend on writing about here, but never can find the time to. I hope I was able to come across as at least halfway articulate -- but I'll find out soon enough.

The segment airs tomorrow (Tuesday) night on KUOW (94.9 FM in Seattle) at 8:30 p.m. If you miss it or don't live in the area, you can listen to it via podcast.

UPDATE: The interview with me is the second segment of the show, which starts around 24 minutes into the broad/pod cast.