Category: News

Going Forward

Hi everyone.

First, thank you all for your touching comments and emails regarding the passing of Olivia Newton-John. They have meant so much. I’m not gonna lie, it’s been a rough week. My initial plans were to post all this week, and then my partner and I were planning a vacation next week, but then we got the sad news of Olivia’s passing on Monday and my world sort of stopped. I knew she was ill but did not expect this to happen so soon. Many of you have sent messages asking me to post ONJ material, but honestly, I cannot even listen to her music without getting emotional and crying. My love affair with Olivia began at the age of eight years old when my aunt took me to see “Grease” in the summer of 1978 after that I was Hopelessly Devoted and have been a massive fan ever since. Olivia was like a second mother guiding me through my life journey. I am so grateful for that.

At the moment, the plan going forward is to take my planned vacation next week while trying to get over this huge loss and then resume posting the following week, August 22. I will also be announcing another ONJ project that I have been honored to work on in the coming days.

Thank you for your understanding.

Love & Light, Paul

April Fundraiser!

Hi everyone,
 
It is April! and time for our first fundraiser of 2022 For those that are new to the BTG community, we have a fundraiser every six months to keep funds in the Burning The Ground PayPal account to go towards site hosting, website security, monitoring, & protection, buying records that are requested, and to maintain my equipment. This year the cost of Hosting and security monitoring have both increased. Site hosting went from $190.00 every two years to $205.00, and security monitoring went from $199.00 yearly to $215.00, not a huge increase but it adds up. These increases are the reason I stopped paying $40.00 monthly to pay for 24bit Flac hosting on Mega.
 
As always our goal is to reach $1000.00 which I know we will meet without any doubt.
 
I do realize that we are living in a difficult time so any amount that you can chip in will be very helpful. I also understand completely if you can’t give anything right now.

All you have to do to make your donation is click on one of the yellow donate buttons anywhere on the site. I use PayPal. It’s safe and secure, and you don’t need an account to make your contribution.

Thank you so much for your help.

-DjPaulT

Seven Days

Hi everyone,

First I want to say thank you for all of the love you guys sent my mom. I passed it along to her and she is very touched by it.

You might have noticed that the older 24bit files are no longer available. I decided to only allow them to be active for seven days. The reason is that recently my site hosting and website security costs increased, therefore, I had to cut something. Paying $40 a month to host 24bit files was getting to be a bit much. The last fundraiser in October was not as successful as past ones due to the pandemic, in which I totally understand. I would urge you to subscribe to BTG, that way you can get an email everytime I make a new post. Then you will not miss out. 16bit files will stay available for at least one year, then I remove them to make space for new files on my server. I have also decided to cut back a little on posting. Posts will not be everyday like before because I have been posting pretty much daily for the last twelve years so I want to slow down a bit to focus on my family, as well as putting out quality transfers that I can take my time working on.

I appreciate all of the support that you guys have given it really means a lot.

-DjPaulT