Music donations October 31, 2006 10:55 PM   Subscribe

I would like to see a mechanism whereby MetaFilter Musicians were encouraged to accept donations (PayPal links?) and listeners were encouraged to donate. I would far rather donate to my favorite artists here than prop up Sony Corp.
posted by beniamino to Feature Requests at 10:55 PM (12 comments total)

+1
posted by null terminated at 11:39 PM on October 31, 2006


Not to be a nag, but what's the status on the mefi CD anyways?
posted by bardic at 11:47 PM on October 31, 2006


answer
posted by bob sarabia at 12:21 AM on November 1, 2006


lurk moar.
posted by bob sarabia at 12:22 AM on November 1, 2006


Well, heck. Why stop at musicians? Why don't we all get links to paypal on our profile pages, and then we can give a nickle or a quarter or a dollar to our favorite posters? loquacious has to eat, after all.
posted by crunchland at 4:39 AM on November 1, 2006


Fuck that.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 5:15 AM on November 1, 2006


Look at their profiles and follow their URLs; you'll often find an opportunity to enrich the artists.
posted by headspace at 5:41 AM on November 1, 2006


what's the status on the mefi CD

What bob said. I'll make an announcement in the next couple days—I'm currently waiting for the final final point-of-no-return this-is-literally-being-stamped-out-by-our-robots email from the duplication firm, with whom I've been exchanging enthusiastic emails for the last three business days.

*vibrates, faints*

I would like to see a mechanism whereby MetaFilter Musicians were encouraged to accept donations

I don't think an official Give Money mechanism is a good idea—crunchland paints the proper dystopian parody.

Musicians can include a link to their CDs and external donate-link-laden webspace in their profiles, I reckon. And the possibility of a supplementary Music subprofile has come up before, though I don't think Matt ever really bit.
posted by cortex at 5:42 AM on November 1, 2006


Why don't we all get links to paypal on our profile pages, and then we can give a nickle or a quarter or a dollar to our favorite posters?

No need to wait for matt. Followers of Meatbomb, please step this way. I'm looking at you, mediareport.

(self link, duh)
posted by Meatbomb at 6:38 AM on November 1, 2006


hey, what if instead of setting a new paypal link we use the one already in place and buy the MetaFilter Musicians sockpuppets?
posted by micayetoca at 6:46 AM on November 1, 2006


"Well, heck. Why stop at musicians? Why don't we all get links to paypal on our profile pages, and then we can give a nickle or a quarter or a dollar to our favorite posters?"

No birds for me, kthxbi.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 6:53 AM on November 1, 2006


"I would far rather donate to my favorite artists here than prop up Sony Corp."

Right! Don't feed the yellow peril!
posted by davy at 8:54 AM on November 1, 2006


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