http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/168734274/permanence-the-new-album-by-deathmle

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WHY ARE YOU DOING A KICKSTARTER FOR THIS:

Making an album costs a lot of money! Recording, mixing, and mastering will take up the bulk of the funds raised by this Kickstarter. Beyond that, the rest of the money goes toward manufacturing the CDs, paying for the album art, and hosting the digital downloads, with a small buffer for unforeseen costs. And if we overfund, all of that money will go towards making our stretch goals as amazing as possible! Basically, the more money we can raise, the more stuff we can add to the album.

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I'm a bit bemused by this. Hosting the digital downloads can surely be done for free via Google Drive or DropBox, although that's assuming you never actually put the album on iTunes or Bandcamp or something, which seems a bit odd (but there you go).

Manufacturing CDs? Pretty cheap from what I recall.

Mastering: You can hire Bob Weston to do it for a few hundred dollars, I thought? You can actually buy computer programs that will do it but that's by the by.

Recording and engineering, maybe: I mean he's playing EVERYTHING, but then you only need to buy a decent input box and Reaper and you could record it all in a rehearsal studio pretty easily.

It just seems a wildly huge amount of money, given how many bands I know who've put out albums DIY that sound amazing and definitely didn't cost close to $10,000.

Am I completely out of the loop on these costs? It's been almost 5 years since I did this sort of thing.