Hi everybody!

Last time I checked in, was right after the East Bay Express article about Project: Courage and Consequence. Our grassroots funded LP/Digital Download record with the same title as Karl Rove‘s book, set to come out the week before.

Well, we did it.



Over $3,000 raised, and the records are on their way. If you want to check it out you can download it right now in any format you’d like.

The attention from Calitics was well timed and much appreciated.

however, we still need your help!

For one thing, if you live in the bay area, you can attend the record release show at the Elbo Room on wednesday:



Also, we are now to the FUN PART, where we get to mess with Karl Rove big time.

More under the cut:

Dear Internet User and Karl Rove Hater,

By now we figure you’ve either bought the album, are not going to ever buy

the album or are waiting for payday to buy the album so this isn’t a push

for record sales or downloads. It’s also not a push for you to attend the

vinyl release show at the Elbo Room on March 3rd – we know you’ll be there

if you can make it. No, this is a letter asking for help in the real mission

of this project. We hope that you can take a small amount of time out of

your day to seed the name and website of this compilation on as many places

as possible around the internet.

You see, the real mission of this project is to fill up search results for

Karl Rove’s book Courage and Consequence with our vinyl compilation of songs

of the same name. Maybe even confuse a few right-wingers to buy it out of

curiosity or their lack of reading comprehension. Since the mp3s are free to

download, we are offering something as well.

I guess in some way you could say that every band, project, art show, etc

needs promotion like this in this internet age and you’d be right – but this

time our fish is big and evil and his book is an insult and he needs to be

fried. It may not seem like much but we sincerely hope it works. It also depends on you and people like you.

Here are some very easy things you can do. If you want to. If you’re still

reading this. Oh please, please keep reading this. I worked so hard on it.

Do you frequent a forum? Please use the appropriate area in your forum to

post information about the compilation (an example is provided below) and

links. Do you have a Reddit, Digg, Tumblr, Stumblr, Total Fark, Something

Awful, Last.fm, Google Buzz, Notcot, Wonkette, TPM, Freep (you sick puppy), or

De.li.cious account? It would help quite a bit if you could post and/or rate

our website link in these different areas. (links for some provided below).

There’s no reason you can’t sign up for these accounts just to rate these

links, either. It takes very little time and you do not generally have to

put in any personal info. Ask your fellow web 2.0 buddies to up rate, thumbs

up and like as well. They like you, they’ll do it. If there are other sites

you frequent around the web that allow open posts to promote a project or

share interesting stories – please feel free to do so. Don’t ask for permission, just do it!

Do you like the YouTubes? Below is a list of links to fake videos of each

of the compilations songs. Please log in and rate these videos Awesome! and

even favorite them if you like. Google runs youtube now and they weight

their video results by views and by rating so please! it only takes a moment

to do this, and when this inevitably hits the radar of the right wingers, we all know the comments will be a battleground anyway.

If you’re some sort of weirdo and do not like the songs, rate

them Awesome! anyway. Don’t worry, the internet police won’t know.

Hey, I bet you have a blog. Do us a favor and make an open post containing

some or all of the information below. I’m sure your readers will be thrilled

at the content you are providing them.

Facebook. Yeah, yeah, we’ve already done a lot on facebook – it helped us

receive at least 50% of the funding (and music and ideas) for this project.

Frankly, we are a little worried about FB fatigue and are therefore

reluctant to keep posting on OUR pages about it. But you! You hardly ever

post anything – why not do us a solid and make a post linking to the main

web page. In fact, if you’re an infrequent Facebook user, it would help a

lot. If you’re worried about conservative family members or friends getting

offended well…that’s just a bonus.

Are you an e-mail forwarder? I’m sorry. I really am. BUT, in this instance

it might help us. Forward away. Hell, forward this email as is and maybe

more people will join in the fight to push Karl Rove’s book Courage and

Consequence to the 2nd page of Google results. A person can dream, can’t

they?

Final request. Let us know what you’ve done! Send me an email or message

with a link to your post or forward so that I may add your efforts to the

list and keep them going. Especially let us know for sites that allow

ratings and I’ll add those links to this email and the website.

Thank you and screw Karl Rove’s book.

Links:

http://www.karlrovebook.net – Official site

http://karlrove.bandcamp.com/ – Bandcamp page / sales

http://cdbaby.com/cd/krove – cdbaby

http://seismicwave.net/project… – root of official site

http://twitter.com/bookkarlrove – Project Twitter

http://www.electrical.com/phpB… – Electrical Audio Forum Discussion

http://courageandconsequence.b… – Courage and Consequence Blog

http://www.kickstarter.com/pro… – Fundraiser site (successful)

http://www.last.fm/music/Death… Last Fm

Bandcamp links:

http://karlrove.bandcamp.com/t…

http://karlrove.bandcamp.com/t…

http://karlrove.bandcamp.com/t…

http://karlrove.bandcamp.com/t…

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http://karlrove.bandcamp.com/t…

Songs on last.fm:

http://www.last.fm/music/The+H…

http://www.last.fm/music/Rival…

http://www.last.fm/music/Have+…

http://www.last.fm/music/Assis…

http://www.last.fm/music/Lambs…

http://www.last.fm/music/We’re…

http://www.last.fm/music/Carto…

http://www.last.fm/music/Death…

http://www.last.fm/music/Gener…

http://www.last.fm/music/Cold+…

http://www.last.fm/music/Hurry…

http://www.last.fm/music/The+U…

http://www.last.fm/music/Victo…

youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v… pitch video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v… Mike Malloy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v… Heavenly States – A Man For Our Times

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v… Rival Dickens – Forget the Naughts

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v… HaveSpecialPower – A Rove By Any Other Name

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v… Lambs of Abortion – New American Century

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v… We’re Gonna Fight The Eskimos Next – Don’t Praise the Machine

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v… Cartographer – The Biggest Asshole In The World

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v… Death Dream – Karl Rove Let’s Get Dirty

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v… Generalissimo – Swarm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v… Cold Lake – Courage and Consequence

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v… Hurry Up Shotgun – Car Bomb

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v… The United Sons of Toil – Invention VS Innovation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v… Victory and Associates – Lies, and the Lying Liars That Sell Them

embeds:

Bands:

http://www.theheavenlystates.com The Heavenly States

http://www.rivaldickens.com/ Rival Dickens, Rick from http://posterchildren.com/ Poster Children

http://www.myspace.com/thelagsf Have Special Power

http://www.lambsofabortion.com/ Lambs of Abortion

http://www.myspace.com/weregon… We’re Gonna Fight the Eskimos Next

http://www.feedbackloop.net/ca…  Cartographer

http://www.myspace.com/deathdr… Death Dream

http://www.generalissimo.mu/ Generalissimo

http://www.myspace.com/coldcol… Cold Lake

http://hurryupshotgun.com/ Hurry Up Shotgun

http://www.unitedsonsoftoil.com/ United Sons of Toil

http://www.victoryandassociate… Victory and Associates