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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.

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DM a band, they will for sure give you a PO box to send money.

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8 points

I suppose I will have to be less lazy and do this. Good recommendation!

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6 points

If they’re a punk band you’ll probably get some tapes or patches or whatever back

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8 points

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.

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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

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ha ha what the fuck

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they were one of the few web companies i didn’t completely fucking loathe

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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!

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y tho

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20 points

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.

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19 points

It’s not even undisclosed. Either your goal is to get acquired, go public, or both.

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Acqui-hires are a thing where a startup gets bought out for their talent, not anything they created or the IP they own.

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I just logged on to post about this, but you beat me to it. I’m extremely fucking upset about it.

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Resonate might be a good alternative. It’s a coop with an interesting pricing model.

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Seems to be only streaming, though. One of the things I liked about Bandcamp was actually downloading music.

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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).

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Why? I wanna be mad too.

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2 points

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.

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22 points

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

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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…

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