Sep 6th '06 by Scott @ 7:05pm 17 Comments

Stereogum fave Juliana Hatfield is giving her “honor system” download experiment another shot.

Hi. I am putting up some more new/old recordings, for your listening pleasure. First, I just want to say thank you again to all who have contributed and continue to contribute to this ongoing downloading project. You are helping to finance my future musical projects.

About the honor system:

“When a song is downloaded, you will have an option. You can decide that ownership of this song is your right and freely distribute the files to your friends and to the people who also think it’s their right, without payment. Or, you can support the artist who wrote and recorded this song and click the PayPal button at the top of the page and send Juliana a contribution. The iTunes standard of $.99 per song may seem too high for you, in which case you can send $.50 – though there is virtually nothing else you can buy legally for $.50. Alternatively, you can think of the number of people with whom you might share these files and give a multiple of $.99 for each song you download.”

I just wanna give her $500 for Only Everything. But $.99/song will do.

Incidentally, this crazy spam was sent to Temporary Residence today…

From: “Juliana Hatfield”
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 03:51:54 -0700 (PDT)
To: [redacted]
Subject: New Record Label.

I am looking for a New Record Label to sign.I hope you know my
workings.Do I quicken yours interests?
DO NOT CONTACT ME when a Jew / Jewish People working at your Record
Company!
Juliana Hatfield
Duxbury,MA.

Who would write such a thing? I’d say Kevin Dean, but it appears English isn’t this spammer’s first language.

Jewliana, who’s out to get you? Or are you working with Mel Gibson now?

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Comments (17)
  1. Mo!  |   Posted on Sep 6th, 2006

    Aww poor thing was the victim of a joe job.
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  3. Asha  |   Posted on Sep 6th, 2006

    I think that it is a great idea. I realize that a whole lot of people will download the songs without donating anything due to not feeling that they should or not being able to afford it, others will make what they feel is a fair donation and others still will donate more than the average. I figure it balances out and gives everyone a chance to expose people to an artists work.

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  4. bjeck  |   Posted on Sep 6th, 2006

    this has already been done.

    and not worked that well…

    by those eye masked menaces.

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  5. poo poodle  |   Posted on Sep 7th, 2006

    If you give anything less than $.99 you might as well not bother, what with paypal fees-minimum $.30 + a %.

    Instead, go to http://poobrand.com/ and spend your money on my cool, but not stupidly ironic, t-shirts.

    Also, I have three Julian Hatfield cd’s that I haven’t listened to in many years. For a fair paypal donation they can be yours.

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  6. Tony G  |   Posted on Sep 7th, 2006

    Her music is worth nothing, so I won’t even bother downloading it for free.

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  7. brooks  |   Posted on Sep 7th, 2006

    Funny, I grew up in Duxbury, MA…

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  8. d  |   Posted on Sep 7th, 2006

    Without an industry musicians are just bums.

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  9. Tiffany  |   Posted on Sep 7th, 2006

    It’s $.50 *per song idiot*. Who would download only one song?…unless you didn’t like it, so why bother donating? And it’s JulianA Hatfield. Can’t you read? Or spell? Bah Humbug.

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  10. Ray  |   Posted on Sep 7th, 2006

    And here I thought independence and DIY were still (at least superficially) cherished notions. What a bunch of irritating cynics.

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  11. josh  |   Posted on Sep 7th, 2006

    the honor system rocks. i end up paying more for the new b-sides and less for the demos of songs that are already on an album, but all in all it works out to where i’m paying at least a 1 for every song, if not more. these songs are awesome and so is Juliana!

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  12. Memememe  |   Posted on Sep 7th, 2006

    Everybody’s watching. Everybody’s looking.
    She’s such a sucker. He don’t want to fuck her…

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  13. Allan  |   Posted on Sep 8th, 2006

    I want to know what you can buy illegally for $0.50

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  14. What a joke  |   Posted on Sep 9th, 2006

    “though there is virtually nothing else you can buy legally for $.50″

    Um..not true. You can buy little trinkets out of the quarter machines, stickers, gum, temp. tattoo’s a 2 liter of pop…the list goes on. And even the crap you get out of the machines is worth more than the crap most “musicians” are putting out these days. Hell, there music isn’t even worth downloading legally or illegally.

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  15. Bee  |   Posted on Sep 10th, 2006

    Are we talking about most “musicians”, as you cutely put it, or Juliana? There is a difference, cranky, get it straight!!

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  16. K-town  |   Posted on Jan 17th, 2007

    I just came upon this page and was stunned yet not not surprised there are people that actually blow their time talking shit for no apparent reason. If you don’t like it then go to a site that has something you like. I think that guys shirts suck but I’m not going to his site to write about how much they suck.

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  17. SCoTT  |   Posted on Dec 14th, 2009

    My computer crashed and I lost all of the songs I downloaded. Juliana, please post the songs again in the near future so I can have them again. I will pay again and again to have any of your songs and I hate that I don’t have your rarities and demos that you released on my new computer. SCoTT

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