Damn, BandCamp was the only place I felt comfortable spending money on music.
I don't want to buy t-shirts and shit or anything physical, I just wanna send artists some cash damnit.
I suppose I will have to be less lazy and do this. Good recommendation!
If they're a punk band you'll probably get some tapes or patches or whatever back
Message the band directly and get their venmo. Probably needs to be over insta though, not sure if Bandcamp allows bands to ask for payments outside of their platform.
I think they will remain fine for the most part until they lower the pay cut from Bandcamp. I'd continue to use that now. Also a Bandcamp Friday is this month so that will guarentee Bandcamp makes no profit
they were one of the few web companies i didn't completely fucking loathe
This sucks!. Bandcamp was one of the few indie things out there. It sucks how everything most be forced into the borg-like collective on of the six MEGACORPS online!
because the undisclosed truth is that getting acquired by a larger corporation is the goal of every tech startup ever for the past 15 years.
It's not even undisclosed. Either your goal is to get acquired, go public, or both.
Acqui-hires are a thing where a startup gets bought out for their talent, not anything they created or the IP they own.
I just logged on to post about this, but you beat me to it. I'm extremely fucking upset about it.
Resonate might be a good alternative. It's a coop with an interesting pricing model.
Seems to be only streaming, though. One of the things I liked about Bandcamp was actually downloading music.
itch.io is cool i just wish they took their anti-NFT stance further and straight up deleted all of the crypto/NFT games on their site
it would be freakin epic :comfy-cool:
it would be freakin epic
it is a private company so only a matter of time until it is part of epic
I really hope this doesn't change stuff much. There's a few artists whose albums I have on band camp which aren't available anywhere else (unless you buy a physical disc at their concert).
Bandcamp pays musicians a very good cut (I think 80%), they also have a good blog that platforms great music. It also was one of the few sites that felt genuinely independent from the corporate internet.
I pirate all my music, but it's nice to know that everything will eventually be absorbed and that the golden age is well and truly over. Can you imagine if the internet was first built by capitalists?
In unrelated news, https://github.com/Otiel/BandcampDownloader
youtube-dl or yt-dlp also work (in addition to working on youtube and hundreds of other sites). I assume all these tools will break soon as they'll probs get rid of full album previews all together...
That's weird. Does Epic own other non-gaming platforms?
I really hope I can start buying music directly from some of the artists I've previously only been able to buy from on Bandcamp.
Reminds me of the Hollywood talent agency that Number Two set up in an Austin Powers sequel. It took slightly less of a cut from their artists than other agencies, and ended up making more money than the evil part ever did.
But seriously, artists getting to keep 18% more of their sales is a good thing.
Lol I saw "lowering their revenue cut" and assumed it was the cut they gave artists.
Yeah, Epic has gradually been building out a platform of tools for different types of content creators. They're doing that as they expand Fortnite into their take on what a metaverse could be. The company is pretty much printing money as they do all this.
They're one of the smartest tech companies out there right now. Their marketing team puts a lot of effort in making it seem like they're the ones taking on big tech like Apple and Google even though they're also a multi-billion dollar company.
The first S&P 500 company that will be funded entirely by 10 year old victims of bullying.
Very cool, looking forward to the huge shitfit that will happen when someone figures out their music's being ripped off so some 11 y/o's Rick Sanchez avatar can twerk in front of a statue of Helen Keller or whatever they're doing in Fortnite now.
I'm honestly surprised Bandcamp wasn't acquired sooner. Epic must have thrown a lot of money at the company. I met one of the founders years ago and they were pretty insistent about wanting to stay independent.
The products and services you depend on aren’t going anywhere, we’ll continue to build Bandcamp around our artists-first revenue model (where artists net an average of 82% of every sale)
That's going to change, but good they're not shaking things up immediately.
Smart move from epic. They're quickly growing into another FAANG level company if they weren't already.
