Rockstar, Necrosoft and other game devs slam Epic and Songtradr for "trashing" Bandcamp as layoffs announced
Rockstar, Necrosoft and other game devs slam Epic and Songtradr for "trashing" Bandcamp as layoffs announced
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Nicklin's colleague and Die Gute Fabrik co-founder Douglas Wilson added that it was "infuriating to watch large corporations gut one of the most valuable communities/services on the internet."
We've been here before. Remember mp3.com? For those who don't, imagine if somebody bought Bandcamp and then deleted all of the music.
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That is exactly what they are going to do. Mark my words: bandcamp will be a subscription service soon, and likely will be a revenue generating click-through to Spotify or itunes or similar.
The big labels can't STAND that we can get good music, but/own it outright, listen to it at our leisure without commercials, and share it with friend.
I encourage everyone to checkout Funkwhale. Specifically the instance I use, because I want access to your music lol.
Funk.gravitywell.xyz (for info, sign up)
Or
https://funk.gravitywell.xyz/library (listen to others' public libraries)
There's also an android app, albeit a little buggy.
Here's my library - https://funk.gravitywell.xyz/federation/music/libraries/9788b698-e8f1-44ac-b2d3-30501fa4ccfe
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Sigh. I guess it's time to go download FLAC copies of everything I have on Bandcamp.
Goddamnit, Internet. Get your shit together.
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Beyond just music, bandcamp is a great site to buy and sell (as a musician or indie label) physical merchandise.
Independent musicians and labels rely on bandcamp. Most alternatives are cost prohibitive to "small" bands.
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eMusic as well. Still seems to be around, but I don't see it as being viable anymore the way things are going.
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Yep. Somehow actually paying independent artists is not a profitable business model. Someone needs to suck the blood out of them for the "system" to work...
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You make a fair point but in Bandcamp's case they offer a download like Steam or streamed playback if someone prefers. It's the one place where I DON'T HAVE to resort to piracy or buying massive collections of CDz if I want to be able to listen to music without restriction. I want to pay the people who did the creative work. I don't want to pay a whole bunch of people with a small fraction of it reaching the original creator.
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What do you want to bet the layoffs will stop once the union representation is gone and then they’ll slowly build back up over the next few years
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When Rockstar Games is chewing you out about how you treat your employees you know you really screwed up.
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Nice to see people stand up for Bandcamp. It's the only good music platform.
We can't have nice things anymore, they all need to be shitty
For real, I use(d) bandcamp for a good chunk of my music discovery and a not insignificant amount of my album purchases. A lot of small/indie labels provide bandcamp codes with vinyl and cassettes which honestly makes me want to support those labels more as while I like to collect physical releases, I'm 9 times out of 10 going to be listening digitally.
1500+ albums and usually when there's not a $25 shipping charge I buy the vinyl too...this is bullshit. We should create campband or something and let artists have control again.