{"id":3970,"date":"2013-02-05T17:20:25","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T22:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/?p=3970"},"modified":"2013-02-09T12:25:15","modified_gmt":"2013-02-09T17:25:15","slug":"feb-only-4-99-sale-spotted-mule-and-other-tales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/feb-only-4-99-sale-spotted-mule-and-other-tales\/","title":{"rendered":"Feb-Only $4.99 Sale: &#8220;Spotted Mule and Other Tales&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Want a great deal on my first CD? Read on&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I finished <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdbaby.com\/cd\/gaither\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Spotted Mule and Other Tales&#8221;<\/a> nearly seven years ago. It was scary and exciting putting out my first collection of songs. And it was just an incredible rush <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/press-quotes#spottedmule-quotes\" target=\"_blank\">getting response from folks<\/a> and finding out songs like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=S2ABrDpbgf0&#038;feature=share&#038;list=UUtzseDzL8qakcgMxy03e_eA\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Highway 17&#8221;<\/a> were really good enough to be on the radio. Odd thing is that you don&#8217;t really expect the music to come *back* to you. But sometimes that happens. Online, I sell through a retailer called CD Baby. It was started by musicians and is an incredibly easy spot to peddle your musical wares. <\/p>\n<p>Sometimes inventory must be trimmed. I recently received an email from CD Baby saying that they have more than enough copies of &#8220;Spotted Mule&#8230;&#8221; By the end of the month, they&#8217;ll either &#8220;recycle&#8221; them  (&#8220;snap, crackle, ouch!&#8221;) or ship them back to me at my expense (&#8220;sigh&#8221;).<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdbaby.com\/cd\/gaither\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1238\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/spottedmule_cover21-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"spottedmule_cover2\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-1238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/spottedmule_cover21-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/spottedmule_cover21-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/spottedmule_cover21.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><br \/>\n<b>&#8220;Spotted Mule and Other Tales&#8221; on CD Baby<\/b><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d rather see these go to a good home instead of sent back to mine. If you don&#8217;t have a copy of the first CD, would like a spare, or are just smitten with those photos of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/gallery\/resources\/pics-mule\/common_ground.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Icing the Spotted Mule<\/a> on the front and back of the CD, you can pick up one (or several) copies for only $4.99. <\/p>\n<p>(I&#8217;ve also heard these CDs &#8211; this one&#8217;s in a hard, plastic jewel case &#8211; can double as ninja stars in a pinch, should the need arise.) <\/p>\n<p>You can hear cuts from the entire CD, read quotes from DJs and customers, and if you like, order your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdbaby.com\/cd\/gaither\" target=\"_blank\">reduced-price copy here on CD Baby<\/a>. I&#8217;ll be keeping the price down at $4.99 until the end of February.<\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.michaelgaither.com%2Fhome%2Ffeb-only-4-99-sale-spotted-mule-and-other-tales%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;&amp;width=800&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:800px;height:30px;margin-top:5px;\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Want a great deal on my first CD? Read on&#8230; I finished &#8220;Spotted Mule and Other Tales&#8221; nearly seven years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3970"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3993,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3970\/revisions\/3993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}