This is my opinion. You don’t have to agree with me but this is how I feel.Earlier I got a few promotional emails from companies who were using the war in Ukraine as a means of promotion to sell products. This caused me to instantly see red and I sent a few strongly worded emails to these companies about doing so and I believe now I need to post my stance on it as we will likely be seeing more of this in the coming days.Let me make one thing absolutely clear: I find the practice of using tragedy as a means of promotional material completely despicable. I found it tasteless during the first year of COVID with all the virus sales being done and to use a very fresh, very bloody and very tragic issue going on as a means of selling product for profit is beyond reprehensible and I will seriously reconsider posting any company here who takes part in such a thing.Now that said, there are also people with some very big hearts that will be donating to charity. To these people, I can only say: tread lightly. Again using Covid as an example, I found even many of those doing charity sales to be disingenuous – just another way to promote products under the guise of charity while donating a minimal amount and reaping the benefits of promotion and further profit from the sales. I find these practices to be highly unethical. My suggestion to these companies: if you’re going to do a charity sale, do it right and give all the profits you make from it to the proper charities or don’t do it at all. Again, this is my opinion and a company is free to make their own decisions but the way this is handled will cause me to make possible changes with who I am willing to continue supporting on this subreddit by posting them here.Lastly, to people who wish to comment on this post, to you I also say tread lightly. Leave the politics at the door as I will not put up with it. Many of us, myself included, have friends in Ukraine we’ve been worrying about and unable to get in touch with. My one and only concern is that they get the help they need quickly to get out safe. This will not turn into a discussion about politics and what people believe should be or shouldn’t be done concerning this war. This is simply about how music companies are handling charity sales or other sales they will be getting involved in.