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TIL the band Vulfpeck crowdfunded a free concert tour by uploading an album Sleepify to Spotify and asking their friends to play it on repeat while they slept. The album consisted only of 10 short silent tracks. Before Spotify removed the album the band had made the royalties amounting over $20,000.

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