TED演讲：Theartofasking请求的艺术(8)

And I was like, "25,000, isn"t that a lot?"
我当时就说，“两万五千张，不是很多吗？”
They were like, "No, the sales are going down. It"s a failure." And they walk off.　
他们说，“不，销量在下降。这是一张失败的唱片。” 随后他们就抛弃了我们。
Right at this same time, I"m signing and hugging after a gig, and a guy comes up to me and hands me a $10 bill, and he says,"I"m sorry, I burned拷 your CD from a friend."(Laughter)" But I read your blog, I know you hate your label.I just want you to have this money."　
与此同时，一次演唱会结束之后，我为歌迷签名与他们拥抱的时候一个人走上前来给了我一张10美元的纸币， 他说：“不好意思，我从朋友那里翻录了你的CD。” （笑声） “不过我读了你的博客，我知道你不喜欢你的厂牌。我希望你收下这笔钱。“
And this starts happening all the time. I become the hat after my own gigs, but I have to physically stand there and take the help from people, and unlike the guy in the opening band, I"ve actually had a lot of practice standing there. Thank you.
这样的事情现在常常发生。我们的演唱会结束之后，我变成了那个收集钱币的帽子，我就站在那里，接受人们的帮助，和之前开场乐队的那个成员不同我在这方面拥有丰富的经验。谢谢。
And this is the moment I decide I"m just going to give away my music for free on line whenever possible, so it"s like Metallica over here, Napster, bad; Amanda Palmer over here, and I"m going to encourage torrenting, downloading, sharing, but I"m going to ask for help, because I saw it work on the street.