Here you can find our many goals we have as a band.  As you can see, they range from very feasible to completely improbable.  We feel it's important for everyone to know what we're going for with this project.  If you see one where you'd like to help us out in completing, please contact us at pocketvinyl@gmail.com

I'm sure we'll add more as the years go on, but here's what we have for right now.

Band Goals: 

-Release at least 3 albums - COMPLETED on Oct. 26 when we released our third album "Death Anxiety"

-Tour the entire east coast, from Maine to Florida - COMPLETED when we played at the Shanty Town Pub in Jacksonville, FL

-Release 5 full length albums - COMPLETED on Jan. 19 2018 with the release of "Uncomfortably Unsure"

-Release 10 full length albums - COMPLETED on Feb. 28 2023 with the release of "You Never Say Goodbye When You Leave" (this is true IF you count the secret album that doesn't exist at all, silly)

-Release 15 full length albums - COMPLETED with the release of our full album cover of Dolly Parton's “Jolene” on June 27 2025 (this counts our live album, ambient work, cover albums, 1990 demos, and our secret album…which doesn't exist)

-Release 15 full length studio albums - COMPLETED on January 1 2026 with the release of Banned Books

-Release 20 full length studio albums

-Release more studio albums than any other non-AI band in history

-Release 5 EPs

-Release 5 MPs

-Tour the entire west coast, from Washington to Southern California - COMPLETED in March 2015 on our "Perimeter of the Nation" tour

-Play in every state east of the Mississippi River - COMPLETED on Feb. 4 2016 when we played at Circle Bar in New Orleans, LA

-Play at least one show in all of the lower 48 states - COMPLETED on April 1 2019 at The Holland Project in Reno, NV

-Have a two week tour of playing entirely DIY shows

-Beat the world record for "Fastest to Play a Concert in Each of the 50 States" - COMPLETED on April 6 2019 when we finished our last state show at the Dragon Upstairs in Honolulu, HI.  Total world record tour time: 44 days, 11 hours, 50 minutes, 24 seconds

-Play shows in Alaska and Hawaii - COMPLETED on April 5 and April 6 2019 as a part of our world record tour

-Tour Europe

-Tour Australia

-Tour in Asia

-Play at least one show on each continent (including Antarctica)

-Tour with a full band - COMPLETED in February 2020, right before the pandemic

-Sell a painting at a show over $100   - COMPLETED at the Hessian Lion in Avon, CT on Sept. 23, 2011

-Sell a painting at a show over $500  - COMPLETED at JD's Bar in Green Bay, WI on April 7, 2013

-Sell a painting at a show over $1000

-Get 1,000 facebook fans - COMPLETED on January 25, 2013

-Get 5,000 facebook fans - COMPLETED on July 2, 2020

-Get 10,000 facebook fans

-Get 5,000 Instagram followers - COMPLETED in May 2024

-Get 10,000 Instagram followers

-Get 100,000 Instagram followers

-Do a Tiny Desk Concert on NPR

-Have one of our songs appear on an episode of All Songs Considered

-Appear on an episode of Sound Opinions

-Appear on an episode of Snacky Tunes - COMPLETED on Jan. 9 2012

-Play 50 shows  - COMPLETED at the Dover Teen Center on Oct. 14 2011

-Play 100 shows - COMPLETED at the Tram in Utica, NY on Jan. 21 2012

-Play 250 shows - COMPLETED at Stage Bar in Chicago, IL on April 12 2013

-Play 500 shows - COMPLETED at Mac's Bar in Lansing, MI on Sept. 27 2015

-Play 750 shows - COMPLETEED at Bar None in Uniontown, PA on Feb. 22 2018

-Play 1000 shows - COMPLETED at Strange Brew in Norwich, CT on Nov. 18 2022

-Play 1500 shows

-Play 2000 shows

-Play 2500 shows

-Play 3000 shows

-Perform for the Pope

-Sell 500 albums - COMPLETED on April 26, 2012 

-Sell 1000 albums - COMPLETED on Jan. 26, 2014 

-Sell 5000 albums - COMPLETED on June 27 2023 (based on our estimates)

-Sell 10,000 albums

-Sell 100,000 albums

-Play a set at Hillstock, the NYC DIY Music Festival - WILL NEVER BE COMPLETED since hillstock stopped in 2013

-Play an acoustic set at the Newport Folk Festival

-Play at least one set at SXSW - COMPLETED at SXSW 2013

-Play a set at Bonnaroo

-Play a set at Coachella

-Play a set at Solid Sounds, Wilco's festival (come on, Wilco. Book us)

-Play the main stage at any national festival

-Open up for the Mountain Goats

-Open up for Tegan and Sara

-Open up for Bright Eyes

-Open up for Ezra Furman - COMPLETED in Summer 2013

-Be involved with something with John Hodgman - COMPLETED when we appeared on the Judge John Hodgman podcast, episode entitled "Rhapsody in Blue"

-Get some press on Stereogum

-Get some press on Paste 

-Have a song get over 50,000 plays on Spotify

-Have a song get over 100,000 plays on Spotify

-Have a song get over 1,000,000 plays on Spotify

-Write a soundtrack for an indie video game 

-Write a soundtrack for an movie - (in the process of being done)

-Have a PV song in a movie that plays in theaters

-Have a PV song in a video game somehow

-Have our own kind of beer (if you work at a brewery, take notice please)

-Release a 7 inch record - COMPLETED on January 5 2013 with the release of "MP1"

-Release a 10" record

-Release a 12 inch record - COMPLETED on Sept. 8 2015 with the release of our 4th album “Tin”

-Play a show at Third Man Records stage

-Release something on Third Man Records

-Release a 7", 10", or 12" for Record Store Day

-make a film about DIY touring bands - COMPLETED with the release of "Drive. Play. Sleep."  Watch now on Youtube.

-Have a Christmas song on a volume of the yearly "A Familyre Christmas" albums - WILL NEVER BE COMPLETED because they stopped making them in 2013

-Have some of our music used in a This American Life episode

-Appear on "You Made It Weird" with Pete Holmes

-Be working artists for 3 years - COMPLETED on July 16 2014

-Be working artists for 5 years - COMPLETED on July 16 2016

-Be working artists for 10 years - COMPLETED on July 16 2021

-Be working artists for 20 years

-Be working artists for 50 years

-Work with Paul F. Thompkins in some capacity

-Get a session at Daytrotter - COMPLETED ON March 24 2014

-Have a Daytrotter session of ours on an officially released Daytrotter Vinyl - WILL NEVER BE COMPLETED - they stopped putting Daytrotter sessions on vinyl

-Be a guest on WTF with Marc Maron - WILL NEVER BE COMPLETED - WTF ended in the fall of 2025

-Be able to afford to tour in a van

-Have a tour for at least 3 weeks where we never sleep in the car even once - COMPLETED in Oct. 2014

-Play a song on a national TV network talk show

-Have a professional figure skater perform to one of our songs (preferably in the Olympics)

-Appear on an episode of Professor Blastoff - WILL NEVER BE COMPLETED - Professor Blastoff stopped happening, thus we will never be on it 

-Have a celebrity post about us 

-Make a full length documentary about our lives - COMPLETED with the release of "Drive. Play. Sleep." on Nov. 7 2017

-Go for an entire calendar year without sleeping in our car while on tour - COMPLETED in the year 2017

-Appear as characters in an indie video game in some way

-play a show for 200 people at a non-festival concert

-play a show for 500 people at a non-festival concert

-play a sold out theater in a major city

-train a cat with a leash and bring it on tour with us

-break a world record - COMPLETELY on April 6 2019 for "Fastest to Play a Concert in Each of the 50 States" (we did it in 44 days, 13 hours, and 50 minutes, as depicted in our memoir "How To Completely Lose Your Mind")

-Be content with our place in the world of music

-Release an entire album of the stuff Eric says between songs on stage

-Get over 100 paid followers on our Patreon - COMPLETED on June 13 2025

-Get over 200 paid followers on our Patreon - COMPLETED on August 5 2025

-Get over 500 followers (free and paid) on our Patreon - COMLPETED on Jan. 13 2026

-Get over 1000 followers (free and paid) on our Patreon

-Release a song with lyrics in at least 5 or more languages

Elizabeth's Art goals:

-Design a label for a beer

-Illustrate a nationally printed children's book - COMPLETED with the release of "Kuekuatsheu Creates the World" in 2025 (which she won an award at the International Indie Book Awards for “Best Illustrator”)

-Do the art for a graphic novel - COMPLETED on Oct. 10 2023 with the release of "How To Completely Lose Your Mind"

-Start a web comic - COMPLETED in May 2017 with the launch of The Touring Test, a semi-autobiographical comic about small touring bands

-See someone on the street that she doesn't know wearing a shirt she designed

-Learn glass blowing

Other non-music goals:

-Eric would like to do voice-over work for video games, movies, TV shows, webisodes, etc.  

-Elizabeth and Eric would like to bike across the USA

-Eric wants to make a tabletop game - COMPLETED when Pushee Pieces was successfully funded via Kickstarter in November 2014

-Elizabeth and Eric would like to write and illustrate a published graphic novel - COMPLETED on Oct. 10 2023 with the release of "How To Completely Lose Your Mind"