Huh. Just found out that Bandcamp isn’t owned by Epic Games anymore. It was sold off to someone else back in 2023. Guess I don’t have a reason to boycott it now
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Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 1 day agoI mean, it’s ok I guess, but as a musician myself that’s not helping much either. Buy some stuff on bandcamp (85% goes to the artists, cheap and often pay what you want) or if you need streaming get Tidal, they give 3x than spotify and didn’t give 100 millions to joe rogan.
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 17 hours ago
FinalRemix@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
There wasn’t really a reason to boycott it anyway. Epic just wanted “free” access to a massive library for their games, like how EA Trax used to be a thing. Nothing changed about bandcamp in the meantime.
DisgruntledGorillaGang@reddthat.com 11 hours ago
The reason would be fuck Epic.
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
There wasn’t really a reason to boycott it anyway.
Yes there was. It’s called “fuck those monopolistic cunts at EGS, they don’t get my money”
Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 16 hours ago
I’m not gonna get started on this, but Epic or not, this is and was one of the only way to give money directly to artists. If you boycott Epic I really hope you boycott steam also cause they’re no better.
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
Fuck off with your false equivalence bullshit.
EGS has used anticompetitive and anti consumer practices from day one, all because Tim Swiney is a petty asshole that wants to be at the top of the pile.
Meanwhile Valve has generally been pro-consumer and built a relatively good service
Stiggyman@ani.social 1 day ago
I love Bandcamp. It does not have much of a filter so I get to find small and under the radar artists.
Personally I buy 90% of my music either on Bandcamp or as a CD in my local store… rip it… throw it on Jellyfin for easy streamikg
Grilipper54@sh.itjust.works 16 hours ago
Musicians aren’t making much on any streaming platform. I wish I could afford to purchase more music on bandcamp but it’s been years since I’ve been able to.
If you don’t care too much how the music is used, music licensing can bring in money, it doesn’t necessarily have to be used in Ads.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Also bandcamp gives you high quality DRM FLAC files (or really whatever audio filetype you want) and those files are yours to keep, forever. You can also stream stuff you’ve bought through the bandcamp website. They also still do bandcamp fridays where 100% of the sale goes to the artist. Next bandcamp friday is May 1st.
Another option is direct-from-artist sales if they have their own website and store.
scathliath@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Hell you can still buy CDs direct (rarely) do that too. Great for display if nothing else.