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[-] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 106 points 1 year ago

Everybody buy your music. These streaming platforms are trash.

[-] KillerTofu@lemmy.world 78 points 1 year ago

Yes, yes buy. Do not sail the high seas.

[-] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 70 points 1 year ago

I want the bands to get some money. I buy from bandcamp when musicians are sensible enough to sell on there, or on their sites.

[-] ShunkW@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago

I wish list stuff until a Bandcamp Friday comes around where artists get all the money. I've stopped buying physical media, so waiting on a digital purchase isn't an issue for me.

[-] Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Bandcamp was sold off, no point using them going forward.

[-] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 31 points 1 year ago

The site is still the same, you still get your music to download, the band still gets most of the money. 100% still a point in using them.

[-] teamevil@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

Dude Bandcamp had been sold twice and the product has not changed from a user experience and I only use Bandcamp at this point...I will say you NEED to download anything you buy to archive your collection but at the moment Bandcamp still pays bands, still allows unlimited streaming and still amazing.

Do I expect it to remain amazing...nope, but for now it's still amazing.

[-] ShunkW@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

For now, they still provide DRM free downloads in FLAC. And they still pay the artists on the Fridays. I'll continue using it till they inevitably fuck it up.

[-] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 year ago

I’ve almost never paid a cent for music.

My concert ticket stack is thicc though, and I have SOOOOO MANY hoodies, t-shirts, cups, and random bullshit. I’m not paying for DRM, but you can’t DRM a comfy zip-up!

[-] Asifall@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Don’t give them any ideas

[-] SharkAttak@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago

Or pirate the music, then send some money in an envelope to the artists themselves.

[-] EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 12 points 1 year ago

Or pirate the music, then go to a concert or buy some merch.

[-] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago

Absolutely. Even if you pirate from some, and buy whole albums from a few when you can afford it, you're supporting artists instead of the shareholders of tech goon overlords.

[-] teamevil@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Me too...I'm at 1500+ albums. But I do download them too for when the sad times to come...

[-] teamevil@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Or both Bandcamp for the win

[-] morrowind@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 year ago

There are three morbillion songs and I have no idea which ones I like. Streaming platforms became popular for a reason

[-] PseudorandomNoise@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Yeah most people don't care to maintain a local music library. It's a lot of work and compared to streaming services that do it for you this offers no real benefit. If you listen to lots of new/different music all the time, streaming is actually far cheaper.

[-] wrekone@lemmyf.uk 3 points 1 year ago

For me, discovery is the entire reason to use streaming services. I have a ton of hard drive space, and know how to find anything I want to download. I have a fairly large music collection from before the days of streaming. But streaming services help me discover all kinds of things I'd likely never hear otherwise. They still suck, as in they're greedy as hell and the quality is mid, but I don't know what I'd do if I had to listen to the same stuff all the time.

[-] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

It's cheaper because the band doesn't get paid as much. The streaming service keeps most of the meager pay.

[-] PseudorandomNoise@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

People make up for it by buying merch or going to shows. Margins on those things are much better for the artists.

[-] morrowind@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

In every service I know of, the platform takes a minority of revenue

[-] EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago

"It is a lot of work"? I don't know, for me it always seemed far more convenient than being locked to a single service, single player app and following restrictions.

[-] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

Yeah this is fucking peak internet snobbery. "Just spend thousands dollars on music" ok.

[-] NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I just realised iTunes (store) is no longer a thing. Everything's just streaming now.

Time to bust out the walkman

[-] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago

iTunes was an unhappy medium. I liked how you can actually buy albums, but they gave the MP3s weird filenames to make it more difficult to move to another device. I did it anyway, but I had to find the right folder, figure out what track it was, and rename the track. I'm against it but it's still better than streaming.

[-] amongstthetrees@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

You can still buy songs on iTunes and load them to an iPod, MP3 player, or in my case to my Navidrome instance for my own personal self-hosted streaming.

[-] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

Everybody ~~buy~~ pirate your music. These streaming platforms are trash.

[-] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Also this. But I want the bands to get paid.

[-] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

Ok that's reasonable

[-] VerseAndVermin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I recently encountered a song I could only stream but not buy anywhere without DRM. Kinda wild because it has over 5 million YouTube views.

If anyone knows how the buy Slow Song by The Knocks, lmk.

[-] IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

YT + Music is worth its weight in gold.

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