Alternate title: '''How to create a rainy day fund for your artist.'''
During the Covid-19 lockdown, our artists have now lost a year's worth of income that would have come from public performances. Please support your artist by buying their music, joining their Patreon and tipping on their vlog live-casts. What the pandemic has exposed is that most successful indie artists have a core following of a couple of hundred engaged fans, the other 150,000 fans are apathetic and uninvolved. To make matters worse, music streaming has killed CD sales and music downloads -- most indies just don't have the volume to make it on hundredths of a cent per stream. [https://www.riaa.com/u-s-sales-database/ RIAA Data]
The following is for those super-fans who want to do a little more for their artist in the form of a rainy day account giving.