You can buy an album with a bonus gift of a band member's ashes
An experimental San Francisco Bay Area-based band is offering more than its music and recordings to fans.
Earlier this week the band Negativland released a statement on Boing Boing, announcing their newest album "The Chopping Channel" would drop on Friday. More noteworthy, the album release comes with "two very unique extra items."
One of those items is two grams of the ashes of band member Don Joyce, who died in July 2015 at the age of 71.
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In bad news, an update Wednesday morning on the group's Facebook page said they may have run out of Joyce's remains. "We'll endeavor to include Him with copies we sell moving forward, but he is likely expired," the group wrote.
The album is still available even if the cremains are sold out, the band reminded fans.
Along with the very literal remains of the artist, fans who ordered the album were also set to receive one of Joyce's handmade audio tape cartridges that he used while performing in the 1980s until his death. The tape cartridges had all been shipped out by Tuesday afternoon, the band announced on their Facebook page.
Before orders started coming in, the band emphasized, "This is not a hoax" and that their friend and co-artist "would have wanted it this way."
Yes, mailing ashes is always the way to really connect with fans.
Sasha is a news writer at Mashable's San Francisco office. She's an SF native who went to UC Davis and later received her master's from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. She's been reporting out of her hometown over the years at Bay City News (news wire), SFGate (the San Francisco Chronicle website), and even made it out of California to write for the Chicago Tribune. She's been described as a bookworm and a gym rat.
