Wednesday's Hump Day

Lookie what blog week prompted me to do!

I'm working on the sleeve (finally) of my long and forgotten sweater. I'm this much closer to finishing the whooolllee thing. Working on this sleeve has made me recognize something. I really must hate working things in pairs. I swear it's the most annoying feeling. You get so close, and feel like you finish something and then your left with the feeling of oh yeah...I still have another one of the same thing to make. Socks, sleeves, sweater fronts and backs. More reason for me to never finish anything.


Anyways.
This is one of my favorite bands

The Avett Brothers. Recentally, they became quite popular.

I work merch for the music festival they came to two weekends ago.

I love them so much, but they brought the worst merch. One CD and one shirt? Get real.

I must of not have been the only one who felt this way, I got a lot of noise thrown at me from people frustrated that these things were their only options. I really want to tell these people that there's nothing I can do about things like that, but they tend not to believe me and blame it on us anyways. My favorite story of the night was a woman who got mad at me because I would escort her backstage to let the band member sign her pants. She also told me (when I told her they weren't coming out to sign CDs), that they've gotten too big for their britches.
I thought of this from the point of the musician, seeing as I would dream of being famous someday. Really, I don't think you should have to come out and sign CDs if you don't want to. You don't owe your audience, even if they did buy your merch and contributed to your success. They did this because they like your music, not you as a person. I talked to one of my friends who was also playing at the same festival and she was telling me about how none of the musicians would be caught dead playing with the avett brothers. You don't have to like the person, just the music they produce. Musicians do not deserve to be harrassed by people. Most of the musicians I've met, would rather just decompress alone after a show than come out and sign CDs. I know I would.
That's all I really have to say about that.

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