All in less than a week.
Now, 200 downloads may not sound like much to you, given that major-label artists can sell tens of thousands in the same time, but for us, being entirely independent and doing everything on our own, it's really exciting!
In fact, one of my pre-release worries was that we would spend years crafting this epic new album, and since we'd been gone so long, less than 10 people would download it.
So much for that!
As a quick comparison, if I remember correctly (and I'm getting older, so...), it took us over a year to sell that number of both Empyreal Progeny and Sweet Painful Reality!
A year vs. 6 days.
Very cool!
Obviously, the ego in me (loves the frosted side... sorry... I mean...) wants it to be due to the caliber of the music itself, but I can only imagine this is actually due to two factors:
1) It's almost instantly downloadable. (Which means no waiting)
2) It's FREE. (Which means no paying)
Either way, thank you all so much for downloading this album friends!
An especially big thanks goes to Cory and the Westword for discovering us and doing a great write-up on Moira's Lake.
To Chris on the Perpetual Motion boards for posting a well-thought-out, honest and very positive early review.
To Ken for posting on several forums, encouraging people to download the record.
And to all of our friends and fans who have gone out of their way to tell others about this. This is all because of you and your efforts.
Thanks again to all of you!
200 is pretty exciting.
Let's see if we can double that number by the end of the month!
NIKO
