Update the Guy Who Financed an Album with Canadian Tire Money
Good job, Corin Raymond! From the Toronto Star:
In the end, the campaign that folksinger Corin Raymondcalled “The Caper” raised more than $7,000 to fund his double album. And it’s still coming in.
Last year, Raymond found a studio, Toronto’s Rogue Music Lab, which was willing to take Canadian Tire money at par to produce the album, Paper Nickels.
In January, he told the Star the campaign he’d begun half-jokingly 18 months earlier — through a song called “Don’t Spend It Honey” — was getting close to its goal.
Support from far and wide allowed Raymond to exceed his goal. In March, when he presented a suitcase full of Canadian Tire money — consisting of more than 39,000 individual notes and weighing 80 pounds — to Rogue Music’s James Paul at the Done Right Inn on Queen St. W., he was also able to buy a round for the house.
