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They 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
by vintermann 3y ago
They 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.