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lindseyflower	Date: July 24, 2003 @ 1:24 PM www.marissamarchant.com this is a unique musician. look what she has to say about the entertainment industry and how they have cheapened art and music..cool. www.marissamarchant.com is she nuts...??? i love it" id="55489">www.marissamarchant.com this is a unique musician. look what she has to say about the entertainment industry and how they have cheapened art and music..cool. www.marissamarchant.com is she nuts...??? i love it
shadeofblue	Date: July 24, 2003 @ 7:05 PM she's dumb considering she has like all the mp3s for download right there..
sinai	Date: July 25, 2003 @ 1:25 AM smart enough to know someones dumb enough to buy it
GrooveTonic	Date: July 25, 2003 @ 1:43 AM yeah right, who in their right mind would pay that?
Expose	Date: July 25, 2003 @ 2:58 AM Anyone here who says they bought that gets a complimentary broken shoutbox. And I think I'm nuts... some people need a padded room badly. I really hate these artsy people that say art has no value so they charge over $20,000 for a lousy painting of a can and whatnot. They can go fuck themselves, and take their stupid theory of "art has no price", and put it out there for free. If art has no price, why can you sell it for thousands of dollars? If it's priceless, how can it sell at an auction for bids only Micheal Jackson's nuts enough to buy?
UnbreakableTed	Date: July 25, 2003 @ 3:06 AM I think this woman fucking rocks. Anyone who'd think to do that deserves to get money from fucktards. Hell, if I could afford it I'd buy the shit, just because this is the funniest thing I've heard in a while. Of course, if I could afford to do that, I'd probably buy a lot of other shit first. Like food. Or a giant metal hand.
princess-angry	Date: July 25, 2003 @ 6:44 AM tigerdirect.com! shes totally flipped it :straightjacket:" id="55621">geez i could buy a wireless access point for that much!! and she is just another nora jones.... or a could by a decent switch or a really cheap computer at tigerdirect.com! shes totally flipped it traightjacket:
princess-angry	Date: July 25, 2003 @ 6:45 AM no one would pay that much!!!
princess-angry	Date: July 25, 2003 @ 6:48 AM why dont she get off her lazy arse and promote herself then.... it sounds as though she just wants money and expects not to have to work much for it.. alot of the effort of becoming a great artist is getting your point accross and to make yourself known...... not hiding in your house all day and expecting to get promoted enough by just mentioning it on one site!!!! I see laziness in her.....
Etheracide	Date: July 25, 2003 @ 11:57 AM If you HAVE to sell each one for $100 to pay for recording and CD costs, then she's practically admitting that she won't sell more than a handful of copies of the cd's. Unless she paid a billion dollars to record and print them. And of course she could have just gotten a horrible Geocities site with a template instead of paying for hosting and design which would have knocked down the price to $97 each which would have made someone slightly less foolish for having bought it. I think she's the RIAA's poster child. I am better than everything else so pay way more for my stuff than you'd pay for anyone else. She'd better not ever sign a record contract if she thinks she is going to get that much for an album. An RIAA backed CD is 1/5 the price of her's and the artists see a mere fraction of that. She'll learn, even if it's the hard way
GeneHilbert	Date: July 25, 2003 @ 2:37 PM Not all the song links work - but regardless. A fool and their money is soon parted.
GeneHilbert	Date: July 25, 2003 @ 2:37 PM Not all the song links work - but regardless. A fool and their money are soon parted.
jackschitt	Date: July 25, 2003 @ 2:45 PM Hey Pecker-Head!! that redundantly redundant. Give me life, liberty and the pursuit of $100.00 dollars American.
leflaw	Date: July 25, 2003 @ 8:10 PM I got a hundred Rock Island albums you can have for two grand.
EZKDRM	Date: July 25, 2003 @ 8:24 PM yeah, I agree with Gene, a fool and his money is soon parted. She sounds just like every other acoustic guit vocal artist I can hear here in LA every day. Actually I found it pretty boring, but I don't like that kinda stuff much anyway, so my opinion on that doesn't count. Nicely done tho, good recordings. $100 a CD....... HAHAHAHAAAAA HEE HEE HE HAAAAAA..... yeah, right. Then with all the stuff I put in my songs I should get 1000bucks a CD any takers......?
BeatRippa	Date: July 26, 2003 @ 2:35 AM lol that chick is crazy but i know some faggot gonna shell out 100 bucks for tha "Love of the music" or whatever haha how gay
thumbtack	Date: July 26, 2003 @ 2:28 PM Not a bad hook though...a bnch of people have commented on it on this thread. People who have never heard of her before, they visited her website, check it out, listed to the sample that was availble etc. Is she crazy? Like a fox...
princess-angry	Date: July 27, 2003 @ 2:15 AM just terrible!!!!!
sinai	Date: July 27, 2003 @ 2:19 AM i'll say she certainly got exposure out of it thumb...now, how many people are now down 100$?
UnbreakableTed	Date: July 27, 2003 @ 2:27 AM I am, but not because of this. Stupid electric bill.
monsquaz	Date: July 27, 2003 @ 4:11 AM Absurd. I would only charge $100 for a box set of +200-500 CDs. But more absurd than this, do any of you remember that guy on here who was charging about +$10,000 for only four bars of a beat ?
Veracohr	Date: August 1, 2003 @ 11:59 PM She is, that's what this thread is. Do a Google search for "Marissa Marchant". You will find quite a lot of posts on message boards from a person whose name usually includes "Lindsey" that extoll the virtues of the amazing Marissa Marchant." id="56975">"why dont she get off her lazy arse and promote herself then" She is, that's what this thread is. Do a Google search for "Marissa Marchant". You will find quite a lot of posts on message boards from a person whose name usually includes "Lindsey" that extoll the virtues of the amazing Marissa Marchant.
pegasi51	Date: August 14, 2003 @ 10:10 AM Holy crap this is an amazing phenomenon. She has posted everywhere, great promotion! I've found postings about her on Vegetarian Message Boards, Genealogy Message Boards. Her name pops up everywhere. This will be on the news soon enough.
Veracohr	Date: August 14, 2003 @ 6:44 PM This isn't a great promotion, it's fawking annoying!
jeffyeakel	Date: August 14, 2003 @ 7:02 PM This looks like a job for...
Remye	Date: August 15, 2003 @ 9:17 AM I'm thinkin it's about exposure. Like 'tack said.. she's gotten that. Sure not many people (I'd hope) would pay that kind of money, but NOW.. she knows her name is out there, and maybe the NEXT album will only be 85? shrug I still don't want it, my second hand music system isn't even worth a hunnerd bux. ttmmm
noriakikakyouin	Date: December 4, 2003 @ 12:19 PM I think it's a hoax. A very weird and bizarre hoax. See, in her "corkboard" area, the people talking about her... writes like she does. Also, all the people who I have found on Google who like her and write about how wonderful she is... writes like her. Plus, it's waaay too weird for someone to actually be selling cds for 1 grand. Especially when she's uneducated. You can tell she’s uneducated because of the way she (or he… I’ll explain soon enough) constructs sentences. Also, Paypal doesn't go off of your address... it goes from a credit card. So, this person doesn't have a bank account. A manager without a bank account? Also, there aren't any gigs lined up on the site or on Alta Vista or Google. Some of that may be the $25,000 performing fee “she” is requesting, but most of it is probably because she/he doesn't exist. There are no records of a Marissa Marchant in New York, and wanting to publicize you would put your message out all over the place. Her "manager" Eres Garcia doesn't "exist" either (for a manager, he sure keeps a low profile too) and he has a "yahoo" address listed as "freakvox". Now, I think that this "Freakvox" is making her up... or has pictures of a woman and is passing her off as "Marissa". After a search on freakvox, I came up with this link: http://www.songwritersdirectory.com/message.cfm?msgid=443 I think that it answers a LOT. Too much hype on the one site, and not enough anywhere else. It's got to be a scam. The plot thickens… Noriaki Kakyouin
invocati	Date: December 4, 2003 @ 5:22 PM Crazy!!!
azhazhellfire	Date: December 4, 2003 @ 8:24 PM hey people, here's a really dumb stupid idea.... but maybe... just maybe she's trying to get a message across? maaaybe the 20,000 thing is a joke and all part of the message? nope, stupid idea. what kind of idiot would interpret that page like that? i dunno. although she did spell dimensional wrong.
azhazhellfire	Date: December 4, 2003 @ 8:28 PM actually i think she needs to re-learn the entire english language.
ABG	Date: December 4, 2003 @ 8:32 PM This is more hilarious than anything else. I'm gonna send this link to some friends to see if they get a laugh at it. Who knows, maybe her goal is just to get some sort of bizarre promotion due to her absurdity, as has already been mentioned in this thread O_o
Svensta	Date: December 5, 2003 @ 10:35 AM Tackie has it right. Here we are talking about her, with a great many of us thinking 'well I just _gotta_ hear this music that is supposedly worth so freakin much'. She's a savvy promoter.
kredd	Date: December 5, 2003 @ 3:28 PM from her web site: "Marissa is mostly spending time recording, but will perform for an appreciative audience, who realizes the value of art, not commericalism." so she must have meant 100 pennies - not 100 dollars...
TameasDust	Date: March 4, 2004 @ 11:40 PM you know I wonder if she still is asking $100 for each cd
TameasDust	Date: March 4, 2004 @ 11:43 PM it has gone up ... $1000 for a cd and $200 for a single song ... she is whacked
TameasDust	Date: March 4, 2004 @ 11:47 PM from her order page ... must be a joke anywho Order Form: Please print this page using the "Print" command from your browser's File Menu. To order a copy of Marissa Marchant Thales of Miletus I have hundreds of songs that I'm recording on state of the art equipment, and a Petrof grand piano that I just bought, and a 2800 dollar sound booth. I am enjoying making extremely high quality recordings. It will take 45 thousand dollars out of pocket to pay for all my equipment and recordings and covers. I am in no rush to finish, and I am sure that you are thrilled with the music industry and you don't want to support people with talent, so I am not asking for anyone's help. I am sure you are happy listening to oldies and the people on the radio. I am sure that you are not opened to hearing talent or believing in it.
pog	Date: March 5, 2004 @ 12:22 AM I never realised paypal was "danerous" admins ?!?!?! can we clear this up ???
Krissco	Date: March 5, 2004 @ 1:57 AM This chic thinks shes Yoko Ono or something. Who in their right mind would pay that much $ for a CD?
leflaw	Date: March 22, 2004 @ 12:01 AM rumor: she is a he.
Svensta	Date: March 22, 2004 @ 8:12 AM Well looks like the site is quite over with, she even says she might never reply to any emails because she is never online anymore. Plus the site is littered with 404's, and the only datestamps appear to be 2001-2002. As for paypal, it has its weaknesses, most definitely. Any pay-over-the-internet system does currently, and there is enough of a body of consumers using Paypal now to make it financially viable for hackers to target. The same rules as ALWAYS apply. Mind where you are surfing. Mind where you enter account info. Mind your antivirals and your firewalls (in-and-outbound). It's no riskier than paying with a saved CC on Amazon.com, just be wary and vigiliant about your systems.
OrryBreaker	Date: March 22, 2004 @ 5:01 PM It is the rec ord companies trying to get people stop buying cd and start buying download version off sites like itunes, napster 2.0 and ect. Just where the RIAA can say their loosing money because cd sells are down but they are really making money off of downloads. Because it is cheaper to download copies then it is for a cd.
OrryBreaker	Date: March 22, 2004 @ 5:05 PM Void last post I didn't went to the site. I thought she just another modle for RIAA. part of a consperiscy to screw p2p programs.
sween	Date: March 23, 2004 @ 9:21 AM Shes aload of crap, all of us d-musicians are alot better and more creative... shes got a cover story so silly people will buy.. smart though, coz she'll probly end up making loads
JRod8945	Date: September 8, 2004 @ 12:43 PM Marissa Marchant seems to go after artists mainly. Bless Google...she/he/it had stalked Bela Fleck for a year or so, emailing him and filling his message board with insane rants (using muliple identities) before they booted its' ass. In the first two, she gives out her phone number!!!!! I can't believe that... http://www.livejournal.com/community/marissamarchant/494.html?thread=28398#t28398 http://www.livejournal.com/community/marissamarchant/494.html?thread=30190#t30190 http://www.livejournal.com/community/marissamarchant/494.html http://www.flecktones.com/boards/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=3218 http://www.photoseen.com/gallery/view_photo.php?set_albumName=albur46&id=bliss http://www.musicianforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=154337
djeffectz	Date: November 26, 2004 @ 12:35 PM "Why sure, I know that $2000 is a LOT of money (enough to feed thirty starving children for a whole year), and three of the four CD's haven't even been recorded yet, but this is REAL ART" "I personally plan on selling every other CD I own just so that I might be able to purchase but one of her CD's" Sorry.. but.. this is just.. ugh.. cultish? I would be scared to death if someone said they were throwing away all of there cds to just listen to mine. I know have a new definition of egotistical and it's 'Marissa Marchant'. Well.. back to reigning the music industrial and taking over the world from my laptop. j/k
djeffectz	Date: November 26, 2004 @ 12:44 PM I HOPE this is a hoax. Brings a bad name to musicians. Maybe that's the motive?
Intergalacti...	Date: November 27, 2004 @ 10:11 AM Well hows her record sales? If she's sold a few she's one of the most intelligent peopleI've ever heard of, if she's soold nothin change her gameplan to become more intelligent
simulacrat	Date: December 11, 2004 @ 5:29 PM umm, i guess she's changed things on her site since you guys checked. all her stuff is free for download. in addition: "I am giving a free cd away to anyone who sends a self addressed envelop with cd box or padded envelop to my P.O box below. All donations accepted graciously, if you are interested in supporting the arts and if you value the arts. My address is: Marissa Marchant P.O Box 2021 Framingham, Massachusetts 01703" As far her english goes, yes it is bad, but for someone who i am guessing is from hong kong (note the mandarin characters on her main page) it really isn't that bad. maybe you can order it for free then sell it for 1000$! :har de har:

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