Free/"Name Your Price" Bandcamp Album Compendium

I play in a band and while it's not free yet, all day tomorrow (3/17) can get our first record for free from Bandcamp cuz it's ten yrs old

http://stnnng.bandcamp.com/album/dignified-sissy-2

hey i've heard stnnng before - good stuff!

Ok now it's up and free for today

Just made this. Pretty psychedelic dudes.

https://thedustbunnies.bandcamp.com/track/food-for-the-moon

From March to December this year a new release each month and each is F/PWYW . Electronics, synths and things: templo.bandcamp.com

Swivs "Free Period Blood Money"
http://swivs.bandcamp.com/releases
catchy bedroom rock music with electronic flourishes

also has a pretty great cover

https://polvodisco.bandcamp.com/album/nostalgia-oceania

I enjoyed this – more so the second half – though I've not heard much indie-pop since the Mystery Jets went mediocre. Light-as-air sounds en español just in time for the southern summer [/reviewer]
(From Amplifier: "Polvo Disco is Alexander Longstaff's solo project. Born and raised in Buenos Aires, he became involved at young age in the local rock music scene, touring Chile and Argentina as a former member of pop band Alai. In 2007 he moved to New Zealand and started his solo music career")

here goes nothing

https://thesoftpinktruth.bandcamp.com/album/why-pay-more

My hero 😍

yessssss

“Why Pay More?” was originally created for a performance at Whartscape in 2009 in which audience members had to guess the track’s bpm in order to win a prize (a life size bust of Master Chief from the video game Halo)

https://miscellaneousfrankums.bandcamp.com/album/loose-forms

collage in the vein of mick turner, >bridge & nut< raketown, and no-input feedback

i have a track on this, but there are 38 other ones, so far they're all great (still working my way through!)
https://hushhushrecords.bandcamp.com/album/presents-vol-2

https://thetissues.bandcamp.com/releases

4-track ep from LA band The Tissues, reminds me of a lot of female-fronted bands I was into in the 90s where the singer sang LOUD.

http://michaelcsharp.bandcamp.com/album/monad

this is dope, def in the ash ra, early oneohtrix, hella synthed up zone

Not really a bandcamp thing but I don't know where else to ask this so

Since when do you have to have a soundcloud account to download downloadable tracks posted on soundcloud?!?

New lamniformes

#metal

https://lamniformes.bandcamp.com/album/thresher

May have been covered up thread but ... have we discussed the "correct" price to pay for a "name your price" album?

I feel $4 and have no idea why

$6.66 hail satan

I usually go with $5.

$10 fugazi style

The question was prompted by some "name your price" Ian William Craig downloads that I'd buy if they came out on CD.

$4 or £3.00 doesn't seem too shoddy.

If you're gonna spend money on Bandcamp this week, consider doing it this Friday: https://daily.bandcamp.com/2017/07/31/this-friday-stand-with-bandcamp-in-support-of-trans-rights/

All the Shinkoyo label back catalogue is NYP right now, including those brilliant Skeletons records.

https://shinkoyo.bandcamp.com/

A friend of friends of mine just passed away. His stuff is good:
https://vows1.bandcamp.com/album/vows-2

mentioned on the post-fahey thread, but this is great: https://deathisnot.bandcamp.com/album/fayet

the excellent "weird times" by matt jencik is free/name your price today only for halloween: https://mattjencik.bandcamp.com/. highly recommended if you're interested in drone music at all.

One thing I don't understand about Bandcamp. Why does anyone pay for any of the music if everything - I ever saw on there - was streamable for free? Just to download the mp3 and have a file on the computer?

to download the MP3 in case it ever goes away, and/or to support the artist

at least once I've streamed something on BC a couple of times and then been informed I couldn't anymore without purchasing the album--not sure how standard that is though

The artist/label can set that, I'm pretty sure.

Also DJs still need downloads, which is why I really like Bandcamp for dance music.

Ok then but what I don't like is that you cannot download single songs (or can you?). On the other hand I like the album approach (in theory). I am torn in between the past and present.

You can! Just click on the track and it should open its own page, with a track-level price.

Although I have seen some jazz artists in particular making power moves where only a couple of the tracks are streaming, and so you have to buy the album to hear the rest.

Why does anyone pay for any of the music if everything - I ever saw on there - was streamable for free?

because they care about the artist

i mean why leave money in the hat of a street performer? you could use that money to pay your comcast bill. im sure they will appreciate it just as much.

BC has lossless album downloads (my preferred listening). I buy an album and support an artist I like rather than giving money to marketers.

I wish Bandcamp would offer Chromecast support. They claimed it was in the offing a couple of years ago but still nothing.

Shameless self-promo here: buy our album for free. Wherein our hero finally accepts that he only always wanted to be Glenn Mercer anyway. https://salthorse.bandcamp.com

The Roves debut LP is now name-your-price:

https://theroves.bandcamp.com/album/the-roves-lp

Zacht Automaat - Introductory Compilation
https://zachtautomaat.bandcamp.com/album/zacht-automaat-introductory-compilation

Review from Other Music NYC weekly mailer:

It is all too rare to hear a band like this, literally bursting at the seams with ideas. Zacht Automaat, the Canadian duo of Carl Didur and Michael McLean, have released an astonishingly diverse and kaleidoscopic array of music across eleven (!) albums in the past three (!!!) years, of which this gorgeously presented set distills the best two LPs worth of sounds. But even that abbreviated amount of music is almost impossible to encapsulate, filled as this record is with tape loops, cosmic workouts, lo-fi dirges, loping exotica-ish patterns, tuneful synth bliss, and modal psychedelia. They've clearly taken a page from Krautrock pioneers Faust, particularly the masterpiece that is Tapes, and let their imaginations and musicality run rampant. This is the best kind of totally listenable experimentation we can always get behind here, and the sounds they conjure hark back to so many long-time Other Music favorites it practically has us giddy, from Can, Cluster, Black Dice, Stereolab, Soft Machine, the Finnish psych underground, the Ghost Box roster, Bruce Haack, and Raymond Scott to a myriad of other brilliant artists we've championed over the years, while still managing to retain a distinct vision and voice.

i'm perpetually a sucker for bands that sound like hardcore kids who just discovered 70s rock so

https://man-eaters.bandcamp.com/album/gentle-ballads-for-the-simple-soul

May have been covered up thread but ... have we discussed the "correct" price to pay for a "name your price" album?

― djh, Sunday, July 30, 2017 10:33 AM (four years ago)

I feel $4 and have no idea why

― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, July 30, 2017 2:25 PM (four years ago)

why do i feel this way, too?

anyway ... this thread should never go inactive for a year.

goddammit

May have been covered up thread but ... have we discussed the "correct" price to pay for a "name your price" album?

― djh, Sunday, July 30, 2017 10:33 AM (four years ago)

I feel $4 and have no idea why

― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, July 30, 2017 2:25 PM (four years ago)

why do i feel this way, too?

anyway ... this thread should never go inactive for a year.

new waldorf and statler experience out a day early! soulful true school chicago hiphop with a sense of humor by two guys who just love making music.

(full disclosure: i'm friends with treblefree and have collaborated with him in the past. doesn't change the fact that he's an excellent producer and dvs is one of the most charismatic rappers i've ever heard.)

Some folks chaff, some folks wheat... But my music is all free/name-your-price on Bandcamp. If anyone pays anything, it gets donated on.

https://ianmanire.bandcamp.com/

Farewell compilation from my longtime electronic music label just came out for free/nyp:
https://astralplanerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/astraltopia

Happy birthday to the Late, Great Montana Elliot of Sharpless. She would have been 31 today. New Sharpless for u:

https://music.sharpless.life/track/people-in-love