I'm really glad Bandcamp exists as a place where I can buy high-quality, DRM-free music, with a reasonable revenue share and no-bullshit experience. This makes me like them even more!
If something isn't on Bandcamp these days, I often don't even bother messing around with the alternatives and just pirate it.
"Today" was 1st May, so it is gone now (until next time I guess, it was the second such promotion since the lockdowns). But yeah, been buying some music, especially releases from my favorites, who seem to have concerts cancelled. The frontpage of Bandcamp was crazy, the feed of items people bought went much faster than usual. I think a lot of people participated.
Great stuff from the best music platform out there, hands down. You get mp3, flac, cd, vinyl, merch and no bullshit attached. Best deals for artists also. This is the only place I buy music these days :)
"But the pandemic and its impact on the music community aren’t over, so today, as well as on June 5, and July 3 (the first Friday of each month), we’re waiving our revenue share for all sales on Bandcamp, from midnight to midnight PDT on each day."
You'll have to wait for next month but do consider it!
Conversely, I tried Spotify for a while, and I won't go back to a catalogue that I have no control over, with curation that is spotty at best and non-existent at worst, and where albums can just disappear for nebulous licensing reasons.
I have a catalogue of music that belongs to me, which I can sort and curate and manage exactly to my whims and desires. It's a matter of quality over quantity.
Gentle Return released his new album on May 1st, so the timing was perfect. I've heard from musician buddies that even with the normal fees, Bandcamp gives them a much larger cut of song/album sales than iTunes, and apparently streaming revenues from Spotify, Apple Music, etc are a joke.
[+] [-] AegirLeet|5 years ago|reply
If something isn't on Bandcamp these days, I often don't even bother messing around with the alternatives and just pirate it.
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https://www.hdtracks.com/
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"But the pandemic and its impact on the music community aren’t over, so today, as well as on June 5, and July 3 (the first Friday of each month), we’re waiving our revenue share for all sales on Bandcamp, from midnight to midnight PDT on each day."
You'll have to wait for next month but do consider it!
[+] [-] philips|5 years ago|reply
It is great Bandcamp has flac, et . But I don't enjoy going back to the days of managing media on a filesystem and syncing between devices.
[+] [-] KozmoNau7|5 years ago|reply
I have a catalogue of music that belongs to me, which I can sort and curate and manage exactly to my whims and desires. It's a matter of quality over quantity.
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