[quote name='Danté's Prayer' date='Dec 26 2004, 10:06 AM']i've put this url on some Belgian forums as well so a lot of Flemish friends of mine have been signing it too
FREE FIONA!
+ sell the albums from all amazing American/Canadian female singer/songwriters in Belgium too
it's really not fair i can't buy great albums like Holly Mcnarland's and so on
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AMEN!
I found this site by accident wondering what was going on with her CD. If I can find the site that has a stream of two of her new songs I'll be sure to post the link so you can hear them.
She makes odd sound great.
Here's a clip from the miamiherald.com site:
Posted on Wed, Dec. 22, 2004
Petition Seeks to Free Fiona Apple Album
BRUNO J. NAVARRO
Associated Press
NEW YORK - Fiona Apple fans wondering when the artist's third CD would see the light of day might want to keep an eye on one enthusiast's online petition.
Dave Muscato, a Missouri musician and Apple afficionado, founded the Web site
www.freefiona.com last month in an effort to pressure her record label to release "Extraordinary Machine." Apple's follow-up to "Tidal" and "When the Pawn ..." reportedly has been finished since May 2003.
"They didn't think it had enough commercial appeal to justify the cost of promoting it and distributing it," Muscato recently told AP Radio. "So even though it was already recorded, they'd already spent the money to record it, they basically decided to just cut their losses and stick it on a shelf."
A message left at Epic Records, Apple's label, was not immediately returned Monday.
For every signature on Muscato's petition, the Free Fiona! campaign plans to send a fake apple to Andrew Lack, the CEO of parent company Sony BMG, "as a symbol of protest and support for Fiona Apple," he said. A demonstration outside Sony headquarters in New York is also planned on Jan. 28.
As of Monday, the Web site has gathered more than 2,600 signatures. It also raised nearly $1,000 from donations and sales of T-shirts and bumper stickers, Muscato said.
"It's really taken off faster than I thought," he said.
Muscato, 20, says he had heard a couple of tracks from the unreleased album that were leaked on the Internet, so he's not worried he's going through all this trouble for an album that might not be worth it.
"Even if it's no good, which I'm sure isn't the case, I would at least like to buy it and decide that for myself," he said.
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