Nice to see people stand up for Bandcamp. It’s the only good music platform.
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For real, I use(d) bandcamp for a good chunk of my music discovery and a not insignificant amount of my album purchases. A lot of small/indie labels provide bandcamp codes with vinyl and cassettes which honestly makes me want to support those labels more as while I like to collect physical releases, I’m 9 times out of 10 going to be listening digitally.
1500+ albums and usually when there’s not a $25 shipping charge I buy the vinyl too…this is bullshit. We should create campband or something and let artists have control again.
Nicklin’s colleague and Die Gute Fabrik co-founder Douglas Wilson added that it was “infuriating to watch large corporations gut one of the most valuable communities/services on the internet.”
We’ve been here before. Remember mp3.com? For those who don’t, imagine if somebody bought Bandcamp and then deleted all of the music.
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Sigh. I guess it’s time to go download FLAC copies of everything I have on Bandcamp.
Goddamnit, Internet. Get your shit together.
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Or the ownership you defend. You won’t like how you’ll have to defend it, though.
It won’t be the pen.
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Beyond just music, bandcamp is a great site to buy and sell (as a musician or indie label) physical merchandise.
Independent musicians and labels rely on bandcamp. Most alternatives are cost prohibitive to “small” bands.
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Any you could share a link to? I’m always on the hunt for new music and I love metal.
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eMusic as well. Still seems to be around, but I don’t see it as being viable anymore the way things are going.
I remember subscribing to eMusic for some number of song downloads a month and downloading stuff from artists I’d never heard of to use up my downloads at the end of the month. All MP3s, still got them and still listen to them once in a while.
Definitely. I found so many unknown artists from their human-curated recommendations that you just won’t find on the streaming services anymore. I rely on KEXP for new music now, which is great, but just kinda…slower I guess.
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Wait, were they slammed?
Holy shit! They were slammed! They slammed them! sLAMMMMMMED
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Someone call a SLAMbulance
COME ON AND SLAM
Yep. Somehow actually paying independent artists is not a profitable business model. Someone needs to suck the blood out of them for the “system” to work…
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You make a fair point but in Bandcamp’s case they offer a download like Steam or streamed playback if someone prefers. It’s the one place where I DON’T HAVE to resort to piracy or buying massive collections of CDz if I want to be able to listen to music without restriction. I want to pay the people who did the creative work. I don’t want to pay a whole bunch of people with a small fraction of it reaching the original creator.
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I’m weird that I do listen to the same 7 song album for hours some days. (Turbo being one example)
But also other artists I listen to like Michael Jackson aren’t on Bandcamp and I haven’t found a local used CD shop since I last moved. They also aren’t stuffing money I’d give for Michael’s music into his grave anyway.
What do you want to bet the layoffs will stop once the union representation is gone and then they’ll slowly build back up over the next few years
When Rockstar Games is chewing you out about how you treat your employees you know you really screwed up.
