Hello friends, fans and all, this is Brandon here. First of all I want to thank everyone out there for their concern, help, overwhelming support, and kind words. Just to let you know am out of the hospital now, recovering and and working on getting my self stabilized and of course anxious to get back to the music and get those new jams pumping into your ears.
(if any of this is news to you, read story below).
There has been an overwhelming amount of people asking to donate or if there is some sort of donation place set up. So as a result, I half reluctantly set up a paypal.com account for people who wish to make donations, but please, only donate if you have the means! If you are a poor college student struggling to get by, please don't send me your money, I would feel bad and would have to return it, seriously! So again, I stress that if you want to make a donation, please do so only if you are in a very sound economic situation and feel like you want to. I feel funny about taking money from people when I haven't earned it, but enough people have asked for this... so paypal donations can be sent to: alaskainwinter [at] yahoo [.] com.
Also, people have been asking about a good place to buy my music so that the money isn't going to a greedy label that steals everything. For those of you who specifically live in Europe/UK/ the rest of the world (this doesn't really apply to those in north america), and who want to buy some Alaska in Winter music- the best place right now to buy my music is at:
http://www.gogoyoko.com/#/artist/alaskainwinter
(all the albums are available)
Gogoyoko.com is a great website run by artist, so when you buy from there, none of that money goes to any greedy label of mine- pretty much 100% of the profits go to the artists and in addition to that, each artist donates a percentage of their sales to the charity organizations that are associated with gogoyoko... so it's a good deal all around.
Many of you have written to me for encouragement or commented their support and I will do my best to get back to as many of you as I can. I appreciate each and every one of you who has showed me support and help at this very hard time in my life and I sincerely thank you from the bottom of my heart. Some of you have even put together benefit shows for me with out me even asking for such a thing, so thanks to Daniel from the Frail, DJ Mario Muse and many others out there who are showing such support.
Thank you all.
Brandon
for additional info/questions- emailt: info [at] alaskainwinter [.] com
6 comments:
Brandon
at the time i was so worried i even reached out to a lawyer friend and the also to the lawyer of my best friend, justin from Blue October...
if you need something let me know...
and as far as this statement goes: " I feel funny about taking money from people when I haven't earned it..."
well, you HAVE earned it by bringing such incredible music to our lives.
thank you and definitely only wish you the best.
sending you a message with this and my contact info on facebook now.
take care and wish you only the best.
gene
Hi Brandon,
I already have all the albums, so I want to buy a t-shirt. I suppose that all of the money goes only to Alaska In Winter if I follow the link in Facebook, isn't that correct?
Good luck
Tiago
Yes, anything that links to this store, the money goes to Brandon and not to any labels:
http://www.alaskainwinter.bigcartel.com/
Hi again. I tried to order the shirt but unfortunatelly it doesn't ship to Portugal. Fix it please ;)
Tiago
hey brandon, kristin here from new york. i can't believe all of this! hope you are well. let me know if i can do anything to help. i am in germany now and would be happy to send you a care package with any german goodies that you miss from your time in berlin. just say the word! you can reach me at kristin.burgos@gmail.com take care, you!
You're awesome, never forget that. Battles such as these in life happen to the best of people. You're an extraordinary person with extreme talent and I wish you the best.
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