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Kickstarter Description
William Schaff is an artist living in Warren, RI. He's responsible for many a piece of fine art, including album covers from some of the top indie bands you know and love.

I am a fella who runs a small recording label and record store in Savannah, GA., Graveface Records.

For 5 years I have been trying to find an extra $15,000 to put out a high quality, fine art book that collects the artwork William Schaff has done for bands and musicians over the years. Every time it looks like I have the money, something comes up. Thanks to the wonders of you and Kickstarter, this might actually happen now. The idea is simple; make a beautiful 11x11 hardcover art book of at least 60 pages featuring Schaff's music related artwork from childhood until now.

An introduction by John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats and intros to different sections by such notables as Will Sheff of Okkervil River and Darren Jackson of Kid Dakota help describe how these images came into existence. But wait, music fans...there's more! The icing on the cake is the 10" that Jason Molina [Songs: Ohia, Magnolia Electric Co.] recorded specifically for this project a few years back. These songs have never been released on anything else! They're incredible, and it's been quite difficult not letting anyone hear them for so long.

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Example of Rewards
Pledge $20 or more
Graveface's first flexi vinyl release - only available here! This will never be available for purchase anywhere. It's of our new girl-group, The Casket Girls (picture The Shangri-Las but incredibly depressed). The flexi comes as a postcard and features the art of William Schaff. Additionally you'll receive a download code of The Casket Girls single, a zip file of the Jason Molina 10", a PDF of William Schaff's book and a Graveface sampler of old/new/rare/unheard stuff.

Pledge $35 or more
Receive the new DREAMEND album, 'And the Tears Washed Me, Wave After Wave' on animated picture disc featuring the artwork of William Schaff (Kickstarter copies hand-numbered). Also comes with a download code of the album, a zip file of the Jason Molina 10", a PDF of William Schaff's book, a Graveface sampler of old/new/rare/unheard stuff and The Casket Girls flexi postcard single featuring the art of William Schaff.

Pledge $60 or more
THE ACTUAL BOOK AND THE MOLINA 10". That's right folks - it's like assuring you get what will ultimately be a limited run of this book. All copies pre-ordered on Kickstarter will be hand-numbered and the 10" comes on an exclusive color vinyl (retail copies different color). Also comes with the zip/PDF and the flexi single. (we'll pimp your name on a supporters page within the book as well...if you want that sort of recognition!)

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shlack
And finally-- this thread got linked in on the Graveface mailing list: "If you'd like to get a copy of the book or just check out our criticized Kickstarter vid, here's a link to the Kickstarter."

In which "criticized" was a link pointing here. Haha!

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fever
Holy shit, Ryan Graveface. Thanks for the great records, man.

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fever
Holy shit, Ryan Graveface. Thanks for the great records, man.

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shlack
Hey Mr. Graveface-- it's kind of off topic but since you're around, whatever happened to the 7" subscription series you were planning for 2012? Is that still going to be a thing?

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Javan
and on another Graveface note, will there ever be more triple vinyl low level owl collections in stock?

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Javan
and on another Graveface note, will there ever be more triple vinyl low level owl collections in stock?

Definitely. I'm currently suing my former distributor for about a zillion reasons, one of which being they've held my stock hostage since mid-2010. So they have probably 30-40 copies of the last LLO pressing sitting in their basement that I'll get back next year.

I will not do another pressing though because I licensed that from D.E. and their requirements for licensing are just plain nutty.

Peace!

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dollabill
Honestly I don't know. I feel conflicted because it looks like it was a lot of fun to make but the fact that you don't see anyone's face makes me feel like they don't feel confident enough in the material to actually stand by it and say "Look I made this awesome thing and now you can have some of it." That's just me though.

I feel like if they didn't want to show their faces there could have been some more creative ways to promote this. A south park style animation using the characters from the albums or a montage set to some Karate Kid music would have sold me.

I've loved the Okkervil River artwork and they're actually one of the bands that pushed me into picking up the vinyl because of the larger artwork. That being said, I'm not sure I'm at a place where I can afford to drop $65 on a coffee table book.

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dollabill
Honestly I don't know. I feel conflicted because it looks like it was a lot of fun to make but the fact that you don't see anyone's face makes me feel like they don't feel confident enough in the material to actually stand by it and say "Look I made this awesome thing and now you can have some of it." That's just me though.

I feel like if they didn't want to show their faces there could have been some more creative ways to promote this. A south park style animation using the characters from the albums or a montage set to some Karate Kid music would have sold me.

I've loved the Okkervil River artwork and they're actually one of the bands that pushed me into picking up the vinyl because of the larger artwork. That being said, I'm not sure I'm at a place where I can afford to drop $65 on a coffee table book.

i think william schaff has been avoiding photos of himself for years, and this aesthetic has no bearing on this project. i could be wrong in that there's widely available press photos of him somewhere, but from back when he had an old umass website to the flickr page now (besides the occasional self portrait), his face is usually shielded.