Originally Posted by kane

I agree. You can look at Radiohead when they gave one of their albums away and let you pay whatever you wanted. While the band never released the actual figures, their guitarist later said that they made more than they would have if they would have gone about the normal distribution method. Many people paid nothing, A decent number of people paid about what they would have paid had they purchased it on itunes or wherever and a small number paid a lot more as a way to reward the band. It still worked out for them because they had enough people who did buy that they made up for the tons that didn't