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kleinbl00  ·  4441 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: For Eager Fans, Small Labels Roll Out All-Access Plans : The Record : NPR
The publicly-traded stock market is bread and circuses for the proles so that the real money can go back to earning monstrous profits through market manipulation and high frequency trading.

Kickstarter, which theoretically should be awesome, is actually nothing more than a formalized instrument for panhandling from your friends. Don't get me started on kickstarter.





thenewgreen  ·  4441 days ago  ·  link  ·  
kickstarter, like so many things is only as awesome as the people that use it. If your friends suck, then yeah.. it's gonna suck. I've supported several projects and really only 1 of them felt like the "investment" you envision with the tea shop. Watch this guys video, seriously.. it's well done. Also, he literally spent months recording the cover songs that people chose after donating 100$ or more. I'm not talking about him and a guitar... I'm talking arrangements. He actually cared about the fact that people were entrusting their money to him. He feels obligated/indebted. I know that he struggled with the whole "hand out" thing and therefore, it never seemed like one.

Just saying, it can be cool if it's done right. But I agree, it's more often than not horrible.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/timothymonger/timothy-mo...