…You’re in luck ‘cause I’ve got more pre-new-album/project post-band housecleaning crossed with last-minute shopping for almost no one:...
The now-kaput full-wrens record (to which my own pending album is half or more), when it was still gonna come out under the wrens name, was going to be called ‘the Wildwoods’. Ooo…giant show-finale spoiler revealed!
I’d wanted it to be both south Jersey-themed, where we were all from (Ocean City, NJ in my case), and ideally plural, ‘cause this was back when I thought that this album’s “concept” was that it was going to be a ‘sequel’ to the meadowlands, which as I’ve said before now, seems hilarious - what record that follows another ISN’T essentially a sequel?
Anyway, I registered & then held onto the "wildwoodsalbum-dot-com" (and additionally .net & .org) domains for over 12 years now, in anticipation of a release because in 2010, that’s what one often did - set up a separate website themed solely on the new album bla bla (see say, Radiohead et al). There’s obv. no need to now, just in general internet-wise, but also specifically here - my record will not be called The Wildwoods. I don’t have much actual connection to the town and have only been there a handful of times.
And I always forget about all of this until the domain’s annual auto-renewal reminds me.
I had debated about auctioning this off to recoup some of the money it cost me over the years - that’s about $100/year (it’s currently $132.64 annually) since 2010 so totaling north of $1,200 - but I’m really trying to put as much of the hideous band-implosion of the last three years behind me as simply as possible. And it also isn’t about the money spent per se and the notion of trying to monetize every little part of all this seems gross. If it actually makes someone happy to own it, that would make me happy.
So in short, I’m ditching these. If you are the one person in the solar system who needs an almost literally last-minute gift for someone that bought one particular indie rock album 19 years ago, and who would be excited to unwrap an abstraction like a domain name, probably handwritten on a piece of paper at this point, under the tree on Sunday...message me or reply saying you want it and it’s yours - domains! for the deep-sixed wrens album! - and we’ll figure out how to sign it all over.
And thanks as always & happiest holidays there,
charles