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I’m not going to try to guess how much mainstream appeal the people at Roadrunner Records expected an Amanda Palmer solo album to have, but considering that they’d already released a handful of Dresden Dolls records I’m sure they knew that it wasn’t going to be much. But the upside to having Palmer and the Dresden Dolls on your label is that they come with a built-in army of the sort of fanatical devotees who will buy not only the albums but every last single from those albums and who are almost scarily eager to work as an unpaid street team for their beloved artists. In this business climate it’s hard to imagine anyone at any label kicking a golden goose like that, but that’s exactly what Roadrunner seems to have done.
Their reasoning, in Palmer’s words: “they basically told me that i looked too fat.”
