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Didn’t Louis C.K sell his standup stuff direct to fans for 5$ for a DRM free downloadable mp3, from his website? Why don’t more artists do that?
by akudha 3y ago
Didn’t Louis C.K sell his standup stuff direct to fans for 5$ for a DRM free downloadable mp3, from his website?
Why don’t more artists do that?
- vintermann 3y agoThey do. Bandcamp is a thing, and it's pretty much that, minus a fee for the infrastructure. But it's not a panacea. An old classmate of mine who's a decently successful Jazz artist now (by Jazz artist standard), had scammers upload her album to Bandcamp without her knowledge. They defrauded a lot of money from her actual fans, probably more than she ever made on Spotify.
- Workaccount2 3y agoIronically part of signing onto a label is providing protection from stuff like this.
- vintermann 3y agoIt's maybe what it's supposed to do, but her label didn't.
- freedomben 3y agoWas your classmate already on Bandcamp?
- vintermann 3y agoYes, through the record company.
- ethbr1 3y ago* Bandcamp, now owned by Songtradr, that promptly fired half its employees.
- cqqxo4zV46cp 3y agoClassic Hacker News. “Companies shouldn’t spend money, except if it’s on developers!”
- kristianbrigman 3y agoAs bad as this is...as this thread points out, more of the money needs to go to artists, and supporting fewer employees should let them do this.
- ethbr1 3y agoAs long as it remains a viable platform. Hopefully the cuts weren't a "gut because we want to run this down on life support" move.
- GSimon 3y agoI bought it when he released it. It was good for him but arguably he lowered his worth and took a pay cut, and it also set a bit of a price ceiling base rate for comedy specials at 5$, which if you aren’t the #1 comedian at the time like Louis was you can’t bring in the same sales volume.
- freedomben 3y agoAmazing, thanks for mentioning this! I had no idea. He looks to sell everything on there, not just mp3s, and they are well priced! Just bought a couple of videos of his performances, and it does indeed include DRM-free .mp4 downloads. Even includes a .srt file for subtitles!