As a result of some very enthusiastic reviews from garageband.com members, "They're Everywhere!" will be Track of the Day at garageband.com.

For 24 hours on Thursday, the 20th of November, 2003 (PST) "They're Everywhere!" will be featured on garageband.com's Pop/Rock front page.

click here on November 20th 2003.

"What is garageband.com?"

garageband.com is the website for Garageband - a new type of music company that discovers, promotes, and distributes the bands identified by the will of music lovers like you. So when you review music at garageband.com, you help decide the fate of tens of thousands of new bands.

Okay, it was only for 2 days and only on {a href= "http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/external-search/103-2163616-8202211?tag=jimsbigego-20&keyword=Jim's Big Ego&mode=music">Amazon.com- but MAN did that feel great.

Jim Infantino of Jim's Big Ego was interviewed on weekend edition with Liane Hansen this past weekend.

listen to it and/or read about it on npr.org

Immediately after it aired our webserver was so bogged down, it couldn't handle the amount of simultaneous requests for our domain name and we were shut down for 10 to 15 minutes - thereafter guest users soared to hover around 100- threatening to overload our MySQL server. It was a lot of attention for an unpop band.

(a bump in our bandwidth)

Later that day, They're Everywhere became the 17th most ordered CD on Amazon.com ahead of Bare Naked Ladies, Nora Jones and the Dave Matthew's Band (Sting was still more popular - but hey - he's Sting).

We are buried under a mass of orders unlike we have ever seen. We will be working over time to get them out tonight.



All of this is very good news - and shows you the power of public radio. Thank you Liane!

• Jim

That's right - Jim's Big Ego will not sue you for downloading and sharing
our music. We won't subpoena your 12 year-old daughter. We won't accuse your
luddite grandmother. We will not lobby Congress to throw you in jail. And we
will not punish you for wanting to listen to our music.

That's because we own the rights to our songs. We release our music by
ourselves. And we believe that we have the right to encourage you to share
our music with your friends without fear of retribution from us or anyone
else.

To prove our point, our most recent release - THEY'RE EVERYWHERE! - has been
licensed under a Creative Commons NonCommercial-ShareAlike attribution,
which unlike a traditional (c)opyright, gives you official permission to
share our music as long as it is not for commercial purposes. To read more
about Creative Commons and their noble mission visit:
www.creativecommons.org

FREE MP3!
You can now grab a free MP3 of "Mix Tape" from They're Everywhere!  To get
the song,  click here.

Thanks to the overwhelming response to Liane Hansen's Sunday November 2nd Weekend Edition piece on Jim's Big Ego - our webserver (which we had thought was robust enough) has been so overwhelmed by the traffic that it has gone down twice now - once after each time the piece has aired in each time zone.

It will undoubtably happen again when the show hits the West Coast - please hang in there and come see our site again, when there is less of a cue - we will work on ways to beef up our bandwidth as well.

Thank you for visiting!

• Jim