Animal Collective's Josh Dibb is sorry for essentially stealing $26,000 from his Kickstarter pledges

by Tyler Munro

September 28, 2012

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Kickstarter is great as a concept, but since it’s less a working contract than an agreement in faith, people sometimes over commit to ideas and money gets lost in the shuffle, which is what happened with Animal Collective multi-instrumentalist Josh Dibb, who raised just under $26,000 in 2009 for a project that’s yet to happen.

But don’t worry, he says it was a misunderstanding.

The project was supposed to go towards a trip to Mali, where he’d perform at the Festival in the Desert, in addition to a CD, book and a charitable donation. But Dibb says he got cold feet after feeling uncomfortable having people fund a trip to Africa. So instead of following through, he says instead that all of the money was donated to TEMEDT, a charity that works towards cultural preservation, race relations and equality in Mali.

“I think the [Kickstarter] was up for a day or two before I realized that I felt incredibly uncomfortable about the idea of asking people to fund a trip for me to go to Africa,” he said to Pitchfork. “That’s why the project turned into a charity thing.”

That’s well and good, but it’s not what people paid for. Contributors were expecting an album and a book. Three years later and they haven’t received anything but a laundry list of self-serving excuses, and while Dibb says his perfectionist tendencies caused him to scrap and restart the project, it’s all a nicer way of saying he’s essentially ripped every one off and fallen back on his own compulsions. He’s guaranteeing that the material will finished eventually. Unless of course he scraps it, again, which is what he did the first time around.

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