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> Don't (just) be afraid of Bandcamp folding - be afraid of artists folding. I've recently come across that problem at least twice – I learned about a potentia
by iggldiggl 4y ago
> Don't (just) be afraid of Bandcamp folding - be afraid of artists folding.
I've recently come across that problem at least twice – I learned about a potentially interesting album done by somebody, but it had already disappeared from Bandcamp without so much of trace. In one case it turned out I had missed the album by only two months, because the album page still appeared in Google's search index cache with a corresponding last indexed-date, but of course that's not much use as far as getting the actual music is concerned.
- 867-5309 4y agodid you try archive.org's wayback machine?
- iggldiggl 4y agoIs the Wayback Machine even able to save the preview streams? Trying it for some other artists that are still live on Bandcamp this doesn't seem to be the case, and in any case it certainly wasn't the case for the particular album I was looking for. Ultimately, unlike the OP I luckily found at least the one album I was most interested in "elsewhere", though it's still a bit of a shame that it's no longer regularly available and it'd absolutely would have merited paying for it.