• morbidcactus@lemmy.caEnglish
      10·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • teamevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        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.

  • seitanic@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    81·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • ubermeisters@lemmy.worldEnglish
      671·
      1 year ago

      That is exactly what they are going to do. Mark my words: bandcamp will be a subscription service soon, and likely will be a revenue generating click-through to Spotify or itunes or similar.

      The big labels can’t STAND that we can get good music, but/own it outright, listen to it at our leisure without commercials, and share it with friend.

      I encourage everyone to checkout Funkwhale. Specifically the instance I use, because I want access to your music lol.

      Funk.gravitywell.xyz (for info, sign up)

      Or

      https://funk.gravitywell.xyz/library (listen to others’ public libraries)

      There’s also an android app, albeit a little buggy.

      Here’s my library - https://funk.gravitywell.xyz/federation/music/libraries/9788b698-e8f1-44ac-b2d3-30501fa4ccfe

      • ryper@lemmy.caEnglish
        7·
        1 year ago

        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.

        • just_another_person@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          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.

  • Rentlar@lemmy.caEnglish
    30·
    1 year ago

    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…

      • Rentlar@lemmy.caEnglish
        20·
        1 year ago

        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.

          • Rentlar@lemmy.caEnglish
            4·
            1 year ago

            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.

  • JJROKCZ@lemmy.worldEnglish
    161·
    1 year ago

    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

  • Pxtl@lemmy.caEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    When Rockstar Games is chewing you out about how you treat your employees you know you really screwed up.