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I'm not sure that these albums do much good for the humanitarian effort to begin with; people who buy the albums will feel that they've already done something to help and hence donate less through other channels. All I can really see it adding is overhead; it's more of a tool to promote artists and the RIAA than actually increase the amount of aid.

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And I guess that by saying this, you are also undermining their effort. Well, maybe even more, those who downloaded the album at least showed some interest in this way of, hm, "helping", and even might buy it later. It's just an compilation, it isn't really worth of downloading just for the music.

It could be said that for every $1 that is scattered across the playing field of charities, it could be more useful to locally administered programs within Haiti. Unfortunately it's lost on the fact that most of the "American" run charities have huge administrative costs that are amazing to me. (And yeah, and it bothers me that CEOs make $200-$500 per YEAR at a non-profit - far more than a person should need or want from a charitable organization.)

You meant $200k? Yeah, that seems excessive. Like how those "prosperity gospel" churches pay the pastors running it similar amounts.

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