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More and more of my music listening and purchasing happens on Bandcamp. It's pretty much exactly the model I want as a consumer and the music there is a lot mor
by cageface 9y ago
More and more of my music listening and purchasing happens on Bandcamp. It's pretty much exactly the model I want as a consumer and the music there is a lot more interesting than what's going on on the major labels anyway.
- KozmoNau7 9y agoBandcamp is amazing. The terms are easy to understand, the pricing is fair, the audio quality is guaranteed (they require uploads to be CD-quality lossless foiles, as a minimum) and it's super easy for the musicians to manage tagging and even physical merch sales. It's exactly how music sales and distribution should be done.
- krn1p4n1c 9y agoIt also has some of the highest margins for the musician. I don't mind paying $10-15 for an album if I know the majority of it gets back in their hands rather than the distributor or label.
- KozmoNau7 9y agoAnd you can choose to pay more than the recommended price, for artists you particularly want to support. According to Bandcamp's statistics, a lot of people actually do that.
- Qub3d 9y ago+1 for bandcamp. As a plus, they have sane filenames and metadata for the stuff you download. Beatport, for example, gives you a download with the name of the song + a long hexstring. I started using beets.io specifically because of this.
- KozmoNau7 9y agoBandcamp's tagging is spot on, with sensibly-sized embedded cover art and everything.
- blacksmythe 9y ago>> lot more interesting than what's going on on the major labels anyway. The Pandora recommendation system has gotten much better recently, and has become a good way to find good relatively unknown artists.
- rainbowmverse 9y agoI basically only send to the streaming services as promotion. Eventually, I'd like to ignore them entirely and get all my sales on Bandcamp.
- shmerl 9y agoYep, I prefer to buy music through Bandcamp as well. DRM-free lossless FLAC is the best.