From now until 12 a.m. PST, Bandcamp will pass 100% of revenue directly to artists. From its website:

Bandcamp Fridays began in March of 2020 at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic when the shuttering of venues led to a loss of vital tour revenue for artists. Since then, Bandcamp Fridays—on which we waive our revenue share and pass the funds directly to artists & labels—has resulted in millions of fans paying over $120 million directly to labels and musicians they love. In addition to helping artists pay the rent, or fund album recordings and tours, Bandcamp Fridays have also become a beacon for artists and record labels looking to raise awareness for causes or raise money for charities.

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[–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Evan Greer has a new album coming soon you can pre-order

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    [–] 42 points 1 year ago

    I love Bandcamp Fridays, I save up for them, always a good time

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago

    That is a decent advertising model. Feels like it's been a while since I've seen one of those

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    I went looking today to see if I could transfer Spotify or Deezer playlists and how much it would cost to buy all the tracks but the first few I checked were unavailable 😔

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  • If you ever find that an artist on other platforms isn't on Bandcamp, you'll usually find them on Qobuz's Download Store since that's a common place that they also tend to publish.

    It's a little less convenient than Bandcamp, and is often a little more randomly priced across artists and even individual songs from an artist, but if your goal is to compensate them and get a high quality audio download, it'll be another option.

    They also have a streaming offering with way better payout rates for artists at what tends to be around $0.01873 per stream as of last year, in case you're not ready to ditch streaming, though I can't speak to how good it is as I haven't tried it myself.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    There's software that let's you easily download your music/playlists to your hard drive. I forget what it's called tho

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  • Actual downloadable software or just a website?

    I've heard of Soundiiz before for migrating playlists to something like YouTube, though it's paid for larger playlists, and after that yt-dlp will work well for the now non-DRM protected playlists on sites like YouTube Music, but not on DRM-protected ones like Spotify, or ones that only show samples by default like Deezer.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    Today was the day I bought into band camp! Thanks to all of you for sharing this info!

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    I get a lot of music from Bandcamp. Unfortunately while unemployed I'm not spending much money on fun

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

    Also worth mentioning, this happens every Friday

    edit: no it doesn’t

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Hey, maybe someone will buy my album!

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    [–] 21 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Good to know that it's not every friday but specific days of year. So today and next one is in december.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Oh, Il he playing King Gizzard nd the Lizard Wizard all day since I noticed they dropped everything off streaming services and the new album (like their 27th now?) is only in BC 👍

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    And that makes The Protomen releasing Act 3 today make even more sense.

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    [–] 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    I did my part! Overpaid on a CD to support the band, got an email from the bass player saying I'm getting all 3 of their albums because of that price. Now I'll have to find a way to support them extra in some other manner...

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago

    By coincidence(?) a band I follow released a pre-order for an album today 💃🕺

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    [–] 5 points 8 months ago

    A good day to buy the new Hen Ogledd album.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    This was my reminder to sign up to bandcamp! Thank you.

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