Fundraiser...
Hi Friends
As I’m sure many of you know, many musicians have
used Kickstarter to fund their various musical endeavors. I’ve seen Kickstarter
campaigns to fund new albums, finance tours, buy new equipment, etc. I think
this is a good thing, artists asking for help from their friends, family and
fans is a time honored tradition. Kickstarter is just an organized digital way
to do it.
So I’ve decided to do something similar…but
different. It’s not a Kickstarter fundraising campaign, it’s more of a direct
appeal to help me with one of the key expenses involved in making my music
available to the public. And the amount of support I’m asking for is minimal.
Only a buck. And you’ll get something back immediately. Let me explain.
As many of you know, all of my albums are
available for downloading free or with a donation at my site. It’s an ongoing
creative experiment to make all of my music as freely available as possible and
see what comes freely back. So far so good. I have no plans to stop. You are
most welcome to visit the site anytime and download as many songs as you want
to. All kinds of good things and even a bit of money has come back to me since
I started doing this, but donations are strictly optional.
In addition to making my albums available at my
site, I’ve also listed all of them (29 at the moment) with a company called CD
Baby which in turn makes them available at many e-retailers of music including
iTunes. I do this mainly to help people who might not know about my site to find
my music more easily. On iTunes or at the CD Baby site, it’s very easy to just
search a given song title or album title and buy it. At my site it’s all free,
but it takes a bit more time to find individual songs. I don’t make very much
money in digital royalties from these CD Baby listings. My main goal has always
been to break even for the listing fees I’ve had to pay to list all those
albums on the site.
The other day I was looking over my CD Baby
account. There’s a feature where they show you how much money you’ve made to
date and so far, the difference between what I’ve paid out to list those 29
albums and the amount of money they’ve brought in so far is about eleven
hundred dollars. I sure would like to see those numbers closer together…
So what I’m asking for is very simple and requires
minimal financial investment on your part and you’ll get something back
immediately. What I’m asking for is that you visit iTunes or CD Baby and buy
one of my songs between now and January 1rst, 2014. If all of my friends here
and other places on the net each did this, I would reach or at least be closer
to my break-even point.
So what do you say? It’s only a buck and you’ll be
helping not to make me rich but simply to break even on one part of my overall mission
to make my music as widely available as possible. All you have to do between
now and January 1rst, 2014, is visit iTunes or CD Baby, (see links below) and
buy one song, any song, and I’ll be that much closer to my goal. If you don’t
want to shop at iTunes or CD Baby but still want to support me in this goal,
you can just go to my site and make a donation there. The problem is that with
very small donations, paypal takes a pretty hefty cut. I think it’s almost 50%
of a one dollar donation. So if you can do it at iTunes or CD Baby more of your
money will actually make it to me.
Thanks for your support! GB
Links:
My website (Musical Recordings Page):
My iTunes page:
My CD Baby page:
I done did purchased a song at CDBaby!
ReplyDeleteThanks Thom! GB
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