What to charge for a download is a problem. I’d like to make the music cheap and affordable for everyone, but I don’t know of a system that lets me charge Russian peasants one price and Manhattan socialites another. If I let it go too cheap then here in the West they won’t buy it because it won’t be taken seriously, such is our conditioning, and in the East if it isn’t at the very least too cheap by Western standards then it will go for nothing anyway because they’ll just hack copies. Which I don’t mind to a degree so long as broke and starving musicians do it, not the scions of Moscow socialites. Ultimately one needs a system that will provoke a conscientious response from the downloader, making them donate according to the dictates of their conscience. Perhaps they should be offered three choices, like my music a little, give a little, think it’s so-so, ah, give a little plus some extra, like it enough to effectively be sponsoring some more, then give me what you feel my music deserves.
I wonder if I can set up such a system?
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