Al discussed it during his Behind the Music. There is some information on Wikipedia about it. Amish Paradise - Wikipedia
Not to further split hairs, but proceeds on the back end are different than Al paying royalties up front to use a song. If he had to pay up front (which I may have mistakenly inferred from the original post) I doubt he’d have been able to make his early albums.
Gotta say I am not digging the text-based shirts we’ve been seeing more and more often on shirt.woot. :\ If you won’t allow it in the derbies, don’t allow it in your dailies.
6 months of blood, toil, tears, & sweat for 120 stars. I deserve this shirt!
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