<story><title>Bandcamp support is faltering – maybe you should download your music now</title><url>https://linuximpact.com/bandcamp-support-is-faltering-download-your-music-now/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Syonyk</author><text>Buy a vinyl album from artists who sell such things, which will get them far more, per album sold, than just about anything else.  Your ability to play vinyl is irrelevant here, and all I&amp;#x27;ll ask is that you store it reasonably (upright, in a cool place, sealed if you&amp;#x27;re not going to play it) for future use, since they last &amp;quot;about forever&amp;quot; when well taken care of.&lt;p&gt;Then obtain the music in some lossless form.  FLAC download from the usual sources, used CD on eBay into the ripper, etc.&lt;p&gt;Though I&amp;#x27;ve also debated just starting to mail checks in envelopes to artists I want to directly support.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s certainly more annoying than something like BandCamp.  But given how &amp;quot;literally everything useful on the internet&amp;quot; either turns into a behavioral surplus vampire or dies (gets killed off), I don&amp;#x27;t have any better ideas either.</text></item><item><author>Lacerda69</author><text>I could not agree more.
If Bandcamp actually implodes I would have no idea where to buy music. 
I want to buy directly fron the artists; everything else feels tainted.&lt;p&gt;Is there any alternative?</text></item><item><author>moogly</author><text>This is so depressing. Bandcamp was the last bastion of what once made the Internet great. I could do without everything else, really. It&amp;#x27;s all greed now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DragonStrength</author><text>The issue of course is Bandcamp is the method most artists use to sell vinyl to fans who can’t make it to their live shows. I assume the pandemic led many to support their favorite artists through Bandcamp, but Bandcamp planned for a new reality that was really just pandemic-induced. The issue is Bandcamp enables smaller artists to sell like bigger artists and anything like your “mail a check” solution is so far from the kind of support Bandcamp could provide. I’m more interested in thinking about what “sustainable business model Bandcamp is” than going back to 1990s music industry.</text></comment>
<story><title>Bandcamp support is faltering – maybe you should download your music now</title><url>https://linuximpact.com/bandcamp-support-is-faltering-download-your-music-now/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Syonyk</author><text>Buy a vinyl album from artists who sell such things, which will get them far more, per album sold, than just about anything else.  Your ability to play vinyl is irrelevant here, and all I&amp;#x27;ll ask is that you store it reasonably (upright, in a cool place, sealed if you&amp;#x27;re not going to play it) for future use, since they last &amp;quot;about forever&amp;quot; when well taken care of.&lt;p&gt;Then obtain the music in some lossless form.  FLAC download from the usual sources, used CD on eBay into the ripper, etc.&lt;p&gt;Though I&amp;#x27;ve also debated just starting to mail checks in envelopes to artists I want to directly support.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s certainly more annoying than something like BandCamp.  But given how &amp;quot;literally everything useful on the internet&amp;quot; either turns into a behavioral surplus vampire or dies (gets killed off), I don&amp;#x27;t have any better ideas either.</text></item><item><author>Lacerda69</author><text>I could not agree more.
If Bandcamp actually implodes I would have no idea where to buy music. 
I want to buy directly fron the artists; everything else feels tainted.&lt;p&gt;Is there any alternative?</text></item><item><author>moogly</author><text>This is so depressing. Bandcamp was the last bastion of what once made the Internet great. I could do without everything else, really. It&amp;#x27;s all greed now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lifeformed</author><text>Vinyl won&amp;#x27;t get the most to the artist per dollar spent though. Most of the revenue from vinyl goes to people involved in the production and distribution of the physical record.</text></comment>