I hope everyone enjoyed the March audiobook series!  Hopefully we’ll be able to do that again, but in order to do things like that, DylanRadio needs your help.  Rest assured, nobody hates asking for help more than me, but we’re rapidly approaching a financial barrier to keeping the site running, and I think that’s due to a couple of things, not the least of which is the uncertainty of today’s economy.  I hate to bother folks with this stuff, but here it is:

We need your regular, monthly support to keep this site online.  Patreon support has been dwindling, not in pledges, but in honoring those pledges.  I don’t blame ANYONE for that because, let’s face it, stuff happens.  You can’t always afford to donate every month, which would be fine if we had hundreds of patrons, but we don’t.  We only have 21.  The more patrons we have, the easier it is to meet our goals.  I know I should have brought this up sooner, but, as it stands, I’m behind on the bills because I’ve been financially unable to make up the shortfall, never mind our hopes for expanding what we do here.  So that’s first and foremost… we need your monthly Patreon support.  I’m trying to sort things out with PayPal to allow one-time donations via them again, but for now, Patreon is what we’re stuck with.  So if you have a few bucks that YOU WON’T MISS (can’t stress that enough – don’t pledge the milk-money) please click this link and pledge your monthly support via Patron.  Remember: Patreon supporters get access something extra that, I assure you, will make you very happy.  It’s not a reward or subscription, it’s just a little “thank-you” gift for helping out.

Secondly, I hate website ads as much as anyone, but this site contains a couple of unobtrusive Google ads that pay us a few cents per visit, but you won’t see those ads if you’re running AdBlock.  I use AdBlock myself, but there’s a few sites that I really want to support (such as ExpectingRain), so I disable AdBlock for those sites.  You can usually just click the stop sign icon and say “Disable” or “Don’t Run” on this page.  I’d be really nice if you could disable AdBlock when you visit this site, and feel free to visit any sponsor of interest to you.

Again, I’m sorry for having to bring this up, and I’m sorry this has been such a long post.  You folks have let me play Dylan’s music for you for nearly 10 years now, and I’d love to keep doing it for 10 more! YOU are the only reason this site exists.  If it weren’t for you, I would have had to close up shop years ago.  Thank you for that honor, my friends.

~Pete Freckelton (The Walrus, your DJ)

UPDATE:  Great News! We can now accept PayPal donations again! So, if you can’t commit to a monthly Patreon donation (and in this economy, that includes most of us), you can now make a one-time donation via PayPal by clicking this link!

AND, since we need to catch-up on some of these outstanding bills quickly, for a limited time, donations of $20 or more will get you the same “thank-you” gift that monthly Patreon sponsors receive. Please don’t feel obligated to donate, and certainly don’t donate the milk-money. DylanRadio is FREE, and will always be free, but that’s thanks to the folks who CAN donate.