Dave Thorp's Blog » Haiti http://www.dave-thorp.me.uk The musings of Dave Thorp Fri, 14 Oct 2011 11:53:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 REM4Haiti – Raise money for the earthquake victims without murdering a song http://www.dave-thorp.me.uk/2010/02/02/rem4haiti-raise-money-for-the-earthquake-victims-without-murdering-a-song/ http://www.dave-thorp.me.uk/2010/02/02/rem4haiti-raise-money-for-the-earthquake-victims-without-murdering-a-song/#comments Tue, 02 Feb 2010 09:38:19 +0000 Dave http://www.dave-thorp.me.uk/?p=838 I’ve just started a campaign to try and get the proper version of REM’s Everybody Hurts to chart higher than the charity single released next Sunday. Now before anyone starts on me I am aware of the following

1. This has been done before – Yes I’m aware that Tracy and Jon Morter did exactly this at Christmas. However their campaign raised £100k for the homeless which is a very good cause

2. It’s wrong to take on a charity single – If the RATM4XMAS campaign taught us anything it’s that the single the campaign was opposing still sold and it still sold well. Furthermore as a donations page has been set up by me for this campaign, providing it takes off, more money will be raised for charity than if this campaign didn’t exist. I will also hopefully as long as it doesn’t violate the terms of any affiliate programmes I am on be posting a number of affiliate links to download the song and donating the revenue to the cause.

3. You have no hope of succeeding – probably not, whilst RATM4XMAS did succeed, that had weeks to prepare. We have days! But even if the campaign becomes even a fraction as successful as the last one it will still help a good cause

The facebook group can be found HERE and the just giving page for donations HERE

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