A friend who is a real whizz with old media (think cylinders) even designing the gear to play them on. He has a website selling out-of-copyright music and speech http://poppyrecords.co.uk and is firmly of the opinion that CDs these days have a negative value. You have to pay to give them away.

I make CDs and give them as a thankyou to contributors to http://stroudvoices.co.uk - an audio archive website. I even declined a fee for giving a talk and demonstrating what is my hobby.

Such crowdfunding is no more insidious than sponsorship to run a marathon for charity. But it is irksome. Emotional blackmail would not be wide of the mark.