I listen to a lot of music from garage band and similar sites where the music is free to download but where you are supposed to donate if you like it. I have donated to Jonathan Coulton for some of his music but I usually cannot afford to give anything as I am really short of spare cash at present and there are a lot of sites I would like to give money to.

it ia a similar thing with sites like abandonia / classic dos games etc I wish I could give them all loads of cash but budget constraints get in the way :(

.... so I am just curious how many of you would donate ??

Donated? As in over internet? Never. If I bought albums at the venue after the gig? Yes.

Not directly to an artist over the internet no, paying a concert ticket, getting a merch shirt at a concert for the band, in that case yes, which is in a way a sort of donation to the band.

I'd never pay for music. I own no music CD that I didn't receive as a gift, and even then I never listen to them.

I have mp3s on my computer of the songs I like the most, but even then I listen to them only once in a blue moon...

wow, each option has 1 vote in this pool (i voted for yes if i could)

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Eagle of Fire @ Oct 28 2007, 09:44 PM) [snapback]317628[/snapback]</div>but.. If you did find a song on a site that you really liked and it was a free download would you feel like donating if you could afford ??

No. Why would I ever do that? There is risks involved when you purchase anything online, and I already don't find it worthy of my time...

No.
Simple reason: I never pay for something on internet.
Also I never expect to be paid for something I put up.

Internet is created as a fuc*ing FREE OF CHARGE medium.
You made it a rotten commercial restricted happening.

maybe some people just wanted to promote their music (for free) on the internet and if you like their work, you appretiate it and gift them cash?

I might buy a music CD if I see a good one, but I never donate over internet. Besides, I have to admit that I feel like supporting dosraider's point, internet was first of all a place free of all commercial toads until they began to creep in, bringing their accursed advertisement and spyware with them which is now spread all over the internet like a pest.

Time of music that cost is over, so my answer is no.
The garage band, if they like it, will continue anyway, donations or not.

but its not that they asked you for the money, its your own good will to show them some respect and admire them. you r not forced to do that if you want to listen to their music or something

hmm, a slightly more polarised reply than I was expecting to receive and it makes me glad I'm not trying to sell content and also quite supprised that abandonia actually gets any donations at all !!!

must just be me but if I like something if I can I try to donate as I value peoples time , this is not meant to sound derogatory for people who won't donate as it is only my personal opinion and feelings.

I love music, but i dont donate, ill donate by the time ill have my own sallary, till that day i cant donate on anything, it would be noninteligent to donate someone elses money

I'll probably never donate. I’m not a big fan of music so I probably wouldn’t listen to any of their stuff anyway.

so that's why you ressurected this half a year old topic? to say you are not a big fan anyways? wow

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There is a big "NO WAR" ukrain flag here from 2007 by russ.

idk if it is markup for  ✔ ?

oh strainge... in the preview for it is a ukraine flag with no war written on it, and it is in r.u.ss (why u have dots?) russ'ses post from 2007 on the last page.

and i just came here to complain aboiut how abandonia is a decript and pornographic shell that needs to be destroyed and put out of its misery with fire, forever, by you, to go somewhere else, that's not shit, and instead i find COMPLETE AND TOTALLY RELEVANCE from 15 years ago.

wow. just wow. life proves me wrong again. i suck. im not sorry.

i sweat to god it was here, wtf it is gone now...

it was the entire page and i was typing, "is it that

wait, it is the sig for him? lol ok...

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that means it was 2 years ago he last does this, so it is not a new footer... so why did it have a huge flag saying "NO WAR" until i observed it, then it disappears and russ'ses image of the flamer from blood is instead a profile selfie profile pic.

very odd.



ps, it now has a lot more than one vote in each pool, and i bet ppl will have still talked about the poll if they werent told off for engaging with the community by this dude.

GOOD MOD SKILLS KID.