People expected them to get fucked after the acquisition, though the new owners are just going “you keep doing what you’re doing, not gonna change a thing, just give us a cut of your profits”
Touch wood, it’s gonna stay that way.
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udon@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Are Bandcamp still the good guys? I thought they were bought by the big capital and now went down the drain. Artists’ opinions especially welcome
gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 days ago
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
They fucked the union, though.
The massive layoff that gutted Oakland-based music service Bandcamp hit one group at the company particularly hard: leaders of its nascent union.
As of Monday, Bandcamp has been sold by video game juggernaut Epic Games to Songtradr, a music licensing firm. The acquisition closed with just half of Bandcamp’s employees offered jobs at the Santa Monica-based company.
The job cuts, which SFGATE reported Monday amounted to about 60 of 118 employees, disproportionately hit union leaders, Bandcamp United told SFGATE in a Tuesday press release. Every member of the union’s eight-person bargaining team was laid off, it said, and in sum, 40 of the bargaining unit’s 67 people lost their jobs.
gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
Shit, that I didn’t know about 😭
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
Were sold by epicc to some other company.
Still doing their regular job and not went to shit.- A user
driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 4 days ago
I don’t bought a lot of music, but all the independent musicians I follow have a bandcamp store. They also sell merch there.
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
I haven’t noticed any change since they’ve been bought up. The new owners did bust up an attempt at unionizing, though, so there’s that.
Techlos@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
on average, i’m earning 3x as much from bandcamp FLAC sales compared to what i earn off streaming. Hasn’t been ruined so far.