>Ukranian-born pianist Valentina Lisitsa became a YouTube sensation a few years ago by uploading her entire self-produced album of Chopin Études onto the site. It was not long after she mortgaged her home to hire the London Symphony Orchestra for this Rachmaninov project that Decca took notice of her, and signed her to a multi-album contract.

damn. When are we gonna see someone from /lit/ mortgage their house in order to fund a print run of their novel or a film, and as a result hit it big.