Thread for awesome stuff on Bandcamp that costs money but is still awesome

oh dang, mope grooves was great. i had not heard about her passing. rip.

so bigcartel seems to be offered more and more as a way to buy physical media of BC downloads, any thoughts?

Here's a new one that kind of annoys me, not going to direct link because I genuinely like the artist and don't want to shame them for trying to make a buck, but...

So said artist has a new album coming out, but there is no digital version available at all. Even ordering through Bandcamp it says that you won't get one despite Bandcamp's standard language that you will. The only way to get it is to pay $20 for the vinyl, but even in order to have the opportunity to do THAT you already have had to pay for a $60 annual subscription. Obviously you get other stuff too with that option, and I'm not discounting that, but I just can't see the benefit of hyping a new album that is locked behind so many gates.

I know it's hard out there, but this is annoying and kind of puts me off the artist.

Like I've supported this artist in the past by buying lots of digital and vinyl stuff in the past and was ready to do so again, but then I ran into this. I like this artist, but they have a wider range of stuff that I'm not as interested in. But I guess it's either all in on everything or you can't get anything at all. Which seems... not ideal to gain new fans?

I have def been seeing the subscription thing more often, I am also unsure what the idea is there

my latest bizarre glitch was buying a gift for a friend but using an old dead email. When I tried emailing her directly it bounced immediately, but before that Bandcamp happily took my money and did not inform me the email was undeliverable, lol

I don't think a subscription model is necessarily a bad idea and I've seen some done well, but I can't imagine it's best in the long run if that's your only option.

The subscription model is just basically the Patreon business model, no?:
If 1000 people like what you do enough to pay you $100 a year, you can make a living doing it.

I dropped it because it was becoming irregular but you know I’m the guy just sending vladislav delay some set amount per month because why not

(there were a bunch of random projects, live sets, whatever and I regret nothing)

Yeah sex is great but have you ever gone through your Bandcamp collection and downloaded all the preorders you forgot about

Haha, I'm the opposite, waiting impatiently for the label to flip the switch on release day. And no, this doesn't always happen according to schedule

I keep my preorder zip files in a separate folder for this specific reason!

Stuff I bought this Bandcamp Friday:

Herbie Tsoaeli, African Time (South African jazz)
Joe Henderson, The Complete An Evening With Joe Henderson (live date with Charlie Haden & Al Foster)
Jerome Deupree/Matthew Shipp/Joe Morris, Travelogue
Construct Of Lethe, Corpsegod, The Grand Machination, Exiler and A Kindness Dealt In Venom (death metal; the last album is a pre-order coming out in June)
Temulent, Progressive Illness Vols. 1 & 2 (drum 'n' bass)
Attic, The Invocation, Sanctimonious and Return of the Witchfinder (very King Diamond-esque metal)

Has anyone ever received a "this album you pre-ordered just released" mail with a link that wasn't already expired?

What IS the point of expiring links, even?