EllenShapiro.com | Psychadelic Goat Records

the full beauty of the Psychadelic Goat I came up with the idea for Psychadelic Goat Records shortly after I started to write. I really don't remember how I came up with the name, but I do remember thinking, hey, that sounds really cool.

I think I was about fourteen when I came up with the idea (hence the misspelling of Psychedelic, which I have kept for sentimental reasons), and it finally became reality in 1999 with the release of my first album, Bridge Over Bottled Water.

The funding for the label is pretty much My Life Savings, with a little (okay, a lot) of help from my very generous family. Psychadelic Goat is currently not releasing other artists, but I will consider doing so in the future once either I can make the label self-sufficient or I'm making enough money to be able to fund someone else's album. Of course, generous financial donations are always welcomed with open arms.

If you would like to read the most recent Psychadelic Goat Records Newsletter (currently a note I dashed off in August 2003 as I was avoiding packing to move to L.A.), please click here. If you are interested in a possible Psychadelic Goat Records Official Road Crew t-shirt, please click here.

The logo, which has gotten better over the years as my drawing has slightly improved (though clearly not very much), is almost exactly what I had envisioned when I came up with the idea for the name. I hope to someday find a suitable picture of a goat and photoshop joe cool sunglasses and a tie-dye swirl onto it, but so far the ability to do that has eluded me.