Buy Now, Play Later

Some remarkably boneheaded opinionizing over the past year about whether it is "fair" for established artists such as Zach Braff to avail themselves of Kickstarter-style crowdfunding. Amanda Palmer, who raised over $1 million dollars last year by passing the digital hat, insists that it is; that a form of barter economics comes into play in which the goods exchanged are not always easy to tabulate.