Please support SomaFM!
SomaFM is entirely listener-supported. With no commercials or corporate sponsors, we're free to play the best music we find. But that means we need your support to keep us going and to help us expand with more musical channels.
Summer has started, and this is our hardest season for raising money. Please don't forget about us, and support SomaFM.
SomaFM accepts Paypal, Visa, Mastercard, Discover and American Express online; or you can send a check or money order drawn on US Dollars.
T-shirts, Mugs and other Premiums
We have several premiums available to our supporters:
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Just in time for winter: SomaFM Stealth Hoodies, a heavyweight, zip-up cotton fleece in black with the SomaFM logo in stealth black-on-black. Very subtle, yet attention grabbing. You need one, and you can get one with a one-time $85 subscription to SomaFM.
SomaFM T-shirts, men's and women's styles, red with black lettering and black or white with red lettering- yours free with a one-time $50 subscription. Add on a Bay Area Takeover compilation CD for $75.
Because sometimes it's too cold for short sleeves, we now have long sleeve T-shirts, men's and women's styles, black with red lettering- yours free with a one-time $60 subscription.
Our stealthy SomaFM mug. Stealth matte black with the SomaFM logo in red. Yours with a one-time $50 support subscription, or with a one of our compilation CDs for $75.
Our Digital Bliss vol. 2 CD For fans of Lush and Groove Salad, a compilation downtempo and mid-tempo ambient grooves by female artists, yours free with a one-time $40 subscription. You can also get it and a SomaFM mug for $75.
Our Bay Area Takeover compilation CD featuring some of the best indie rock bands in San Francisco, yours free with a one-time $35 subscription. You can also get it and a SomaFM mug for $75.
One-time Donation
Don't want a premium? Use these links to make a quick donation to SomaFM with Paypal or Credit Cards:
Donate any amount!
| Your support of any amount helps us stay on the air, providing commercial-free music that can't be found anywhere else. You can donate as little as $2.99 or as much as you'd like. Donating $10-$20 really, really helps us! We accept all major credit cards as well as Paypal. |
Automatic Monthly Subscription
A simple, effective way to support SomaFM is through an automatic monthly subscription. You can cancel it at any time, and you can support us with as little as $2.99 a month. Considering that satellite and other internet music services charge between $13-20 a month, don't you think SomaFM is worth it?
Subscriptions can be cancelled at any time (details), and there is no minimum subscription duration.
By Mail
You can also send us a donation in the mail. If you are sending a check, please make sure it is drawn on a US bank in US dollars. You can also send an international postal money order. (You can send cash at your own risk.)
Please be sure to include your address if you're requesting a shirt or stickers. And for shirt orders, please include the size and color shirt you want. Send it to:
SomaFM
2180 Bryant Street
Suite 208
San Francisco, CA 94110 US
Please note we have moved as of April 1, 2010
Shop at Amazon and Support SomaFM
You can shop at Amazon.com and support SomaFM: we get a 5% commission on anything (not just music) you buy if you use this Amazon.com link or this Amazon.co.uk link. In fact, we get a commission on everything you buy from the time you click on those links, to the time you close your browser window.
Fundraising Update
To meet our monthly budget, we need to raise $1,070 a day for the next 28 days. So far today we've raised $496, and for the month $2,310. We still need to raise $29,689 more by the end of the month.
We rely on you for support!
If you value SomaFM and the music we play, please support us. We operate on a voluntary subscription model to ensure that no one is left out: we don't want to exclude someone who wants to listen but can't afford to support us financially. But if you can afford to support us, we're counting on you to do just that.
Other internet radio stations make lots of money playing 5-10 minutes of annoying commercials each hour, but that really detracts from the music we play, and if we played all those commercials, we wouldn't want to listen to our own stations!
If you think about all the great music you get to hear on SomaFM, doesn't $4.20 a month or $50 a year seem like a great deal?
We have always and will continue to operate on a sustainable financial model with no outside investors or venture capitalists to answer to, allowing us to be truly independent internet radio. Making a great radio station that you can count on is more important to us than making money, not the other way around (like most other radio stations).
(Financial support of SomaFM is not tax-deductible.)
Thanks for your support,
Rusty Hodge
Program Director and General Manager
