alexschelldorf Posted August 14, 2013 Share Posted August 14, 2013 http://www.joyfulnoiserecordings.com/why-golden-tickets.html $15, 700 press, gold. Interesting idea: "Golden Tickets" is a collection of personalized "theme songs" for and about seven specific WHY? fans. Over the the course of several months, Yoni and Josiah Wolf internet-stalked their fans for the purpose of crafting the homage which would end up on this album. The concept, Yoni explaines, was that, "We would write a theme song for one customer who came to the [WHY?] web store and bought something every month. Like Mighty Mouse. It would be a song about that person. We'd read all about them on Facebook and Twitter, and sometimes even go so far as to contact their significant other to ask them questions. Then I would write the song on piano, and my brother would take the skeleton of lyrics & piano and turn it into a fully realized arrangement." These songs, which the band referred to each as a "Golden Ticket", were given away to fans in a variety of ways. One Golden Ticket was used to to raise money for victims of the Tsunami in Japan. They sold another Golden Ticket on eBay to benefit victims of Tornado devastation. The band held an iconography contest, and gave a Golden Ticket to the winner. They also hosted a video contest and awarded a Golden Ticket to a man who didn't attempt anything interesting at all, but merely sent the band footage of himself, shirtless, mouthing a monologue with no sound (the words Yoni imagined this man was speaking became the lyrics for "Dropjaw"). All the Golden Ticket songs are collected here. And as a special surprise, one more literal Golden Ticket will be randomly included with the limited edition gold vinyl. So that one more person has the chance to receive a final melodious homage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaelmanfredi Posted August 14, 2013 Share Posted August 14, 2013 sweet. PO'd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
esbe Posted August 14, 2013 Share Posted August 14, 2013 Love this band. alexschelldorf 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gmoney Posted September 17, 2013 Share Posted September 17, 2013 Shipped today. Pumped. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kylebutcher Posted September 17, 2013 Share Posted September 17, 2013 Saw one in a store. It had a nice gold foil embossing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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ChardeeMacDennis Posted September 25, 2013 Share Posted September 25, 2013 I ordered this from sound stage direct way before joyful put it up...hope my order gets fulfilled still! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wellnow Posted September 27, 2013 Share Posted September 27, 2013 That's a really nice looking record. Pitchfork hated the album http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/18492-why-golden-tickets/. They forgot one thing though: stalker's his whole style. esbe 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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