An open letter to WAY fans and aspiring parodists

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Bobio, great work as always. Just became a fan on Facebook so I can check out new songs and find out about your album.
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Bobio wrote:lastly, I'm embarrassed to admit, I have no idea how to release a cd, major research and google mode is about to commence.
If you want some quick advice, I'd suggest getting your CD's made on http://www.discmakers.com. I made a Harry Potter-related parody album in the latter part of last year and got it made via discmakers and the albums were beautiful looking! :)
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Way_Moby wrote:
Bobio wrote:lastly, I'm embarrassed to admit, I have no idea how to release a cd, major research and google mode is about to commence.
If you want some quick advice, I'd suggest getting your CD's made on http://www.discmakers.com. I made a Harry Potter-related pardoy album in the latter part of last year and got it made via discmakers and the album were beautiful looking! :)
Thank you Moby, I will look into that.
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I'm really excited... Just watched "Party Like a Mormon" again the other day.
Good stuff. ;) Your rapping is very good!
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Way_Moby wrote:I'm really excited... Just watched "Party Like a Mormon" again the other day.
Good stuff. ;) Your rapping is very good!
Thanks for the kind words; I really appreciate the receptive response that I've gotten here, just reflects the fact that we're all WAY fans, and he's a really nice, humble guy. Regarding the rapping, a poster on my facebook fan page, said that my rap skills in "Cold" were outstanding, and my wife laughs, because she says for a white guy from the 'burbs, I'm a pretty good rapper. lol

On another note, does anyone know of a way to increase your youtube hits? I saw a parody the other day, and it was quite good, but the dude had over 200k hits in 3 months, and I was like, "how does that happen?" I heard there's a secret or software, but not sure, if anyone knows, please fill me in. Thanks again
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People... watch it. There are ways to increase view count yourself, but that's generally seen as super-not-cool and it's better to get views just by promoting its head off.
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Bobio wrote:On another note, does anyone know of a way to increase your youtube hits? I saw a parody the other day, and it was quite good, but the dude had over 200k hits in 3 months, and I was like, "how does that happen?" I heard there's a secret or software, but not sure, if anyone knows, please fill me in. Thanks again
In all honesty, I think your hit count is rather impressive already! I mean, a couple songs have already broke the 'thousand' mark, and "Hard Out Here for a Wimp" is very near 10,000!
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A quick question: does anyone know what's the pros/cons of ascap vs bmi, or should one join both? Thanks
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There's really not much of a difference. Some days of the year you have a higher chance of making more from ASCAP, other days BMI. Most people I know go for ASCAP.
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A quick scan of Wikipedia shows ASCAP having some criticism, whereas BMI's clients include Mariah Carey, Christina Aguilera, and John Williams. ;)
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