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Oh, if it isn't the joys of the capitalist cycle... Let the enshitification begin.

• pparanoidd 3y ago
  nothing to do with capitalism. people just don't want to directly pay for music
  • F-Lexx 3y ago
    Interesting thought. What is this based on? I mean, why would people just not want to directly pay for the music that they enjoy?
    • ghaff 3y ago
      Are you serious? A ton of people will just take anything for free that isn’t nailed down.
      • F-Lexx 3y ago
        Yeah, I'm serious. Lots of people were happy throwing money directly at the people who were making the music they enjoyed, either through live jigs or Bandcamp.
  • spencerflem 3y ago
    this one absolutely is though - people were happy using bandcamp to directly pay for music but the owners got greedy and sold the site
  • cageface 3y ago
    A significant minority do. Bandcamp cleared $20 million in profit in 2022: https://www.fastcompany.com/90951664/bandcamp-spotify-vinyl-renaissance https://www.fastcompany.com/90951664/bandcamp-spotify-vinyl-...
    • crtasm 3y ago
      and "Fans have paid artists $1.21 billion using Bandcamp, and $193 million in the last year." from bandcamp homepage.