Cool Beans. That's cool. Paying your own way. Self-reliance seems non-controversial, and unquestionably honorable. I agree with Joe Offer that there are legit crowd-funding stuff. Vietnamese orphanages and what not. And it CAN be done gracefully by musicians offering the donors something along the way. But I still feel a bit queasy about the whole "Please donate to help me make a CD of my really cool music" thing. It seems to me entitled. Again, I would like to not think this. (Joe, yes, that's me :-)
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