Hey all!
As you all know, the WFMU fundraising marathon started this week and TONIGHT is Week One of The Best Show On WFMU's fundraising shows. If you didn't know, WFMU is a listener sponsored station that doesn't take corporate sponsorships or sleazy grants that compromise our ability to be 100 percent freeform. It lets me do what I do every week! But the only way that continues is if we receive your pledges!
We make it worth your while. I put together a premium that I am SO proud of called the DONT STOP ME NOW FANTASY PACK. Any pledge for 75 dollars or more automatically secures it. The pack consists of:
RATED G.G. - a vinyl single comprised of songs by notorious scum rocker GG Allin cleaned up and recorded by people exclusively for this single! The single will feature tracks by BEN GIBBARD, THE MOUNTAIN GOATS, TY SEGALL, FUCKED UP and TED LEO! There will also be a bonus DIGITAL DOWNLOAD of the single that will feature additional content by HOME BLITZ, SCHARPLING AND WURSTER and MORE!
The single will not be for sale in stores and will only be available by pledging DURING MY MARATHON SHOW!
The fun pack also includes a POSTER designed by CHARLES BURNS! And there will also be an amazing T-SHIRT! And a BUTTON!
And the only way to get these things is to pledge DURING MY SHOW TONIGHT - from 9 PM to midnight EST!
You can pledge by calling 800-989-9368 or online at wfmu.org, but again - you must do it DURING MY SHOW.
We try to make the marathon shows fun instead of being a boring PBS pledge snooze. And I could not be more excited to have two VERY special guests live in the studio tonight: TED LEO and CARL NEWMAN of the New Pornographers will be in studio playing songs and having a ton of fun!
I will also be giving out all kinds of prizes during the show with random drawings. Great books and records and signed stuff and super rare things!
WFMU also offers a variety of premiums that you can get for pledging at different prize levels. You can check them out by going to
http://www.wfmu.org/marathon/tch.shtmlI will also be explaining everything that you get when you pledge at the different levels on the air tonight.
And for the high rollers I am also going to have a work of art designed by STEVE LAMBERT that goes to the person who pledges the most money over the course of the two weeks!
But high roller or entry level pledge, we need EVERYONE to step up and make it happen! TONIGHT! wfmu.org! 9-midnight EST!
Thanks for any and all help with spreading the word! I am grateful!
Tom.
