I enjoy my coffee, I tend to go to the coffee shop everyday. I know most of the regulars at the store, and always enjoy having little chats with random people in the cafe. Yesterday, I had an interesting one. This guy starts the conversation by asking my what kind of music I like?? An interesting question for someone you have never met…but none-the-less it gets him talking to me, which is what he wanted. He was a musician himself, and selling CD’s of himself. He played the guitar and sang, and all the music and poetry/lyrics were his own original stuff. Pretty cool, eh?

His artist name was “Randy TJ.” This is where it got interesting, he was only selling his CD’s in person, and signing everyone. So that every CD of his that was out, would have an original autograph on it. His plan? To get into the Guiness Book of World Records by doing this. I’m not entirely sure how this would work, but good on him for trying.

However, perhaps my mind works a bit different, but I’m thinking that he could get a lot more publicity by putting less effort into marketing his CD’s online and in music stores than going around coffee shops in person. And as he himself pointed out, he’s an artist trying to make a living. Selling CD’s the standard way will bring in more money than in person, that is, if his music is as good as he was claiming.

I regret that I couldn’t buy a CD, because I often don’t carry cash on me, and he didn’t have a credit card machine on him. So I couldn’t get a CD, but I’ll remember his name, however, and look forward to hearing about him in the future.