Comment on Sources to purchase mp3s?
ianfraserkrillmaster@midwest.social 2 days ago
hot take: if an artist is already popular, then they dont need your support anywhere near as much as a bandcamp artist does. i believe it is ethical to enjoy “popular” music without paying for every megabyte. just go see them when they come to town and buy a t-shirt if the spirit moves you.
_NetNomad@fedia.io 2 days ago
+1 for Bandcamp. they often run a "bandcamp friday" event where they waive their cut of all music sold that day, so almost everything (payment processors still take a cut) goes to the artist. there are also self-hosted alternatives to bandcamp like faircamp
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 2 days ago
Wow, that says a lot for Bandcamp
frongt@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Especially given that they’re owned by Epic Games
kokomo@lemmy.kokomo.cloud 2 days ago
Epic Games is long gone as a owner, they’ve since been owned by Songtradr, which isn’t any better, as they basically are anti-union and only gave 60 out of previously 118 workers. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandcamp
ianfraserkrillmaster@midwest.social 2 days ago
i’ll have to check those out!!