Mastodawn

prob gonna skip Bandcamp Friday this week then and just get what I want from Discogs or wherever elsel. I did buy a vinyl through Bandcamp recently, if I knew that I would’ve gotten it used from Discogs :\

@Flaky Nobody is calling for a boycott. Skipping #BandcampFriday only impacts the musicians who rely on Bandcamp for income. Bandcamp Friday is the best time to buy music because none of the money goes to the company.

It’s more a trust thing tbh? Even the tweet says so, Bandcamp Friday might be screwed to some extent with what’s going on.

@Flaky it remains to be seen if it’ll happen yeah. But it’s premature to say to skip it entirely and even if bandcamp Friday doesn’t happen this month it’s not fair to the artists to boycott bandcamp at this point.

True. I did buy a vinyl through Bandcamp and I trust the artist to fulfill the purchase, but I hope Bandcamp doesn’t pull a Reddit.

@Flaky incidentally vinyl is also not really that great for the musician due to the economics of it. Not that it’s bad to buy vinyl if it’s available of course! But it’s not as scalable or available for independent musicians.

Good to know, thanks! I would actually buy digital FLACs or CDs (if it’s available, in case releases get pulled which I’ve had issues with), this was an exception since I really liked it + wanted to get it on a physical release.

@Flaky Yeah if vinyl is available already and you want to have a physical keepsake of the music, it's totally fine to buy it! I'm just not a fan of a perceived notion that all "real" music should end up on vinyl (or even CD) to be worth considering purchasing.

I know a few folks who are like "Ooh I'd like to buy your music but only if you have it on CD or vinyl" and I'm like "Ooh sorry that's just not feasible for me to do"

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yeah, that’s a very ignorant thing to say, that “real” music has to be physical. For me I like having the CD so if anything bad happens (service goes bankrupt, hard drive failure, etc.) I have that physical backup. I’ve had issues with 7digital pulling my purchases away (as well as a 10-download limit) as well as releases being pulled from Spotify. Bandcamp and I believe Qobuz don’t do this as far as I know.