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My exact thought. Bandcamp is a great platform, why didn't he just use that?

• drivingmenuts 12y ago
  Because he didn't invent it and therefore cannot capitalize on taking the X percentage off the top of all sales, as opposed to just the Y percentage of his own sales. The web is basically one big not-invented-here enabler. With lawyers, marketers and social media managers, oh my.
• hamburglar 12y ago
  Presumably one difference between this and Bandcamp is that Garth Brooks thinks that in order for such a site to be successful, it needs big-label artists. This means they've spent a whole lot of money on licensing, which makes me question their overall viability. My guess is that the licensing forces their margins to be suuuuuper thin in order to be anywhere near competing with the other big music retailers on price.