>THAT'S the part I don't get. Well, why even go through the
>motions of pressing it up?

Couple reasons:

-You saw the post in The Lesson in the past few months how someone said they don't want to listen to projects that only exist as free mp3s because it feels like it doesn't really exist or isn't "worth" anything? On some level, probably a lot of people feel like that. This project is "worth" a lot to me, so I want to feel like it is legitimized, and potential bloggers/fans to feel it it is "legit", by existing as an actual CD.

-I know it's possible it might get completely ignored, but I'd like to send it to magazines/blogs that only accept physical copies in hopes of reviews. Same with college radio; I got a college radio station in Seattle to play a track just through sending e-mail and the feeling of knowing that happened is great, but many college radio stations only accept physical copies.

And lastly and most importantly, this!
> There's
>nothing like the feeling of holding a copy of your own shit in
>your hands.