June 16th, 2012 
James Shotwell 
Remember when Lil Wayne’s song “Lollipop” was the “it” single for about 4 months? During that time, a rock (and I use that word loosely) band named Framing Hanley signed and released an album featuring a cover of the aforemention pop hit that helped launch them almost instantaneously into heavy radio/online rotation. It was a good gimmick, no one can deny that, but somewhere along the line they also got it into the minds that the reason people gave a shit was because of their skills as musicians. Unfortunately for Framing Hanley, no one with money seems to agree, so now they’re asking fans to cough up $40,000 over Kickstarter to cover the costs their next album.
You read that right: Forty-thousand dollars. For one album.
Let’s forget for one second that you can record an album with amazing production quality, hell maybe even a double album, for far less than what Framing Hanley is asking for and focus on start by trying to figure out why any band as small as this feels like they deserve 40g’s to make an album that will run less than 90 minutes. Unless I missed the months they spent at #1 for their OWN MATERIAL, nothing in their career can justify feeling entitled enough to think that is how much you need to spend.
What do you think? Will you put money towards this (idiotic) plan? Comment below and let us know!
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Maybe if they get it all then I could ask them to send a couple grand my bands way for our full length. We’re paying for a majority of it, with the label fronting a portion but hey! They’re probably just barely gonna scrape by with a measly $40,000. Honestly, I hope they barely raise any of it and get a good reality check. But if they do get it, I will remain jealous and become even more cynical towards the music industry lol
He said it himself “we can’t pay for the record ourselves on the money we make at our jobs”. That tells me the demand for their gimmick has depleted and either it’s time to pack up and move on or have more realistic expectations about what being a one hit (who stole someone else’s hit) wonder. 40,000 can make a hell ofa record these days, but if they are without label support, I’d hope 39,000 of that budget is set aside for marketing if they plan on continuing any bit of momentum they once had.
Holy Shit. They’re already up to 20k? That’s ridiculous. *facepalm