Things You Just Don't Care About

scott, the other bit of bandcamp is it's probably the largest direct market for bands and labels to sell physical media these days, outside of shows. I have no clue what the bandcamp cut is, but you can buy vinyl, cds, t-shirts, and assorted ephemera on there, too. you might have some used records (albeit of recent vintage) in your store someone bought off there!

yeah, its totally popular! well, i guess people have to hope for the best. the sharks who bought it claim to want to still give artists their cut? but who knows. it does suck when something works and people break it anyway. discogs is a similar case.

No more Bandcamp Fridays :(

wait what

... I don't know if there are no more Bandcamp Fridays tbh

ppl got mad at me a couple of years ago when I mentioned Bandcamp on this thread. I don't have anything against it, it's just never been part of my life!

yeah its like myspace. i never went there but i got why people did. i had an account it just wasn't for me. i wasn't even friends with anyone there. not even that one guy everyone was friends with.

i also just don't buy music online. or merch. youtube has always given me 100% of what i want from music online. and i do pay 10 bucks a month or whatever for the premium YT. but i doubt artists get much from them. just a hunch.

wait now i am remembering that i might have bought that live Can CD from bandcamp? the double cd. i think that was the only way i could get it here at the time. i pre-ordered it! i'd never done that before.

i have gone to label websites to buy. mostly metal. didn't need bandcamp for that.

I think some of my collaborations are on Bandcamp? Maybe? Some on SoundCloud and some just YouTube. I have never been very good at putting everything in one place, and I am normally just a sidebeing so I don't necessarily even know where, when, or if things get released.

meanwhile this is the merger that is shocking the nation. lemonheads + jelly belly? there is no stopping the Ferrara juggernaut!

"We're elated to announce an agreement to acquire Jelly Belly Candy Company. We have long admired Jelly Belly’s imaginative products, talented team, and passion for creating high-quality, innovative sugar confections, and we look forward to welcoming its team into our Ferrara community later this year."

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a friend just announced on insta that he lost his job at bandcamp

As mentioned upthread, they really did employ a lot of committed music nerds.. right here in Downtown Oakland as well

Rick Rubin, any podcast/video series/documentary featuring Rick Rubin and probably any album produced by Rick Rubin after The Black Album.

You should read Rick Rubin's new book The Creative Act: A Way of Being (no you shouldn't actually)

so sick of seeing rick rubin's feet. buy some shoes, hippie!

I think you could go back much further than his one song on the Black Album. Which came out second, License To Ill or Radio?

rick rubin needs to do a podcast with dave grohl.

as annoying as he he now i can't make too much fun of him. because slayer. and yeah because radio. and because of the masters of reality debut. oh heck lots of reason.

you guys are gonna make fun of me but i finally got a copy on vinyl of his dumb queen remix and its just something that i have always loved. i've had the promo CD since it came out. we will rock you with beats. shit that sounds so dumb when i read it...

ooh a podcast with dave grohl and steve albini! yikes. and it would be about the history of soul music.

I have a hard time caring about any podcast that involves two or more dudes talking about stuff and laughing at their own jokes.

when they invite a laughing friend that makes them both laugh a lot. yeah...

not currently accepting opinions on bandcamp from ppl who pay for youtube

oh, that was already two days ago.

i guess i just read text here and respond as if there's an eternal, ongoing convo

i pay for youtube because i listen to a lot of playlists at work and i don't want to get commercials. that's it in a nutshell.

i get it. just being silly

I pay to avoid ads via Apple TV but I signed up via Argentina so it’s $1 a month.

my kid went away to school and i'm using his PS5 to play the one game i love and he bought the PS5 from another kid and it still has that kid'a amazon prime account on it and i watch various movies where liam neeson has various brain disorders for free! #lifehack

i hate most podcasts for the reasons yall just stated. sorry, i can also get stoned and bullshit about something i know a lot about for 30+ minutes, this is called “being a human being”

"I have a hard time caring about any podcast that involves two or more dudes talking about stuff and laughing at their own jokes."

that's precisely what repelled me from a lot of podcasts in the last decade, a prime example of this was a left-wing politics one that used to be all over my twitter feed and I was too grumpy to last more than a few minutes with it. Then a couple of years back multiple woman were coming out and saying that one of the chief laugh-at-his-own-jokes-blokes from this podcast had sexually assaulted them and was a persistent danger.

the best thing about podcasts is they demonstrate the importance of editing

I don't like any podcast where there is any laughter whatsoever. Just dry commentary please.

I have a hard time caring about any podcast that involves two or more dudes talking about stuff and laughing at their own jokes.

Wait till you read ilx!

the best thing about podcasts is they demonstrate the importance of editing

― no gap tree for old men (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 21 October 2023 bookmarkflaglink

Structure is the main lack for podcasts.

But even so I am not a talk radio listener.

I'm astounded by the number of clips that show up in Instagram suggestions from comedy lifestyle podcasts featuring 2-4 dudes or usually 2 women. There cannot be so many listeners that everyone who's done 15 minutes at the Laugh Factory can make money from podding.

Radio dramas are where it's at but sometimes it's hard to tell which ones are going to sound like rejected Joss Whedon scripts.

I did a podcast with a friend recently and I listened to five minutes of it afterwards and was bored.

What's even worse is watching a video version of a podcast. Oh cool now I can SEE people sitting around talking!

Personal quirk: I can pretty much only listen to a podcast when I am driving a car.

There is almost no other activity that I can combine with audio input. If I'm at home or at work, I am probably doing something incompatible with listening to words.

And I really hate driving a car, so by extension I am not hearing podcasts very much at present. That said, it's the perfect mix: driving only uses the parts of my brain that are compatible with hearing words.

Like, my beloved wife will have a podcast or music or YouTube going... while also working as a completely kickass reporter/writer/editor. I cannot do that because I can only have one stream of words in my brain at a time.

Also videos are mostly terrible - gah, can I please read the transcript at my own pace?

Video pods are basically...TV Talk Shows?

I'm astounded by the number of clips that show up in Instagram suggestions from comedy lifestyle podcasts featuring 2-4 dudes or usually 2 women. There cannot be so many listeners that everyone who's done 15 minutes at the Laugh Factory can make money from podding.

― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 21 October 2023 13:35 (forty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Surely it’s more about ego than money.

I'm astounded by the number of clips that show up in Instagram suggestions from comedy lifestyle podcasts featuring 2-4 dudes or usually 2 women. There cannot be so many listeners that everyone who's done 15 minutes at the Laugh Factory can make money from podding.

― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 21 October 2023 13:35 (forty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Surely it’s more about ego than money.

well. its just publicity too. and a way to tell people to go see you at yukyuks on the turnpike. i mean its free sorta. so why not.

i can't listen to the true crime podcasts that are all the rage. they all sound like this american life to me. which i also could never listen to. feel like a lot of podcasts just use that show as their template. plus i just have a hard time with the closevoice thing. also i don't care about true crime really.

i think the only podcast i enjoy is Fall of Civilizations, which has its minor flaws but is really well done and soothing imo

everyone loves that 500 song pop music one on ilm but i haven't listened. i know my pal tarfumes swears by it.

as far as thread goes: new scorsese. i can't take leo. i never need to see him in another movie as long as i live. his big rich moon face trying to play living breathing people makes me cringe. feel like he peaked at...whenever basketball diaries was. he was really good at playing a young beautiful kid who didn't know anything. as a puffy multi-zillionaire who doesn't know anything...just the trailer alone for wolf of wall street made me want to barf.
i would watch Silence sometime though! and i enjoyed Hugo! and i still haven't seen Bring Out The Dead. would watch that. if i'm being honest i haven't loved a movie of his since After Hours. and i'll re-watch Sopranos if i need funny mean guys. amazing that he's so old and still making epics though. it pays to be tiny when you are old. you can last longer.

Irishman is great and has zero Leo in it.

Silence is my latter-day Marty keeper.

I'm watching KOTFM tomorrow or Tuesday.

I think I need to see all 50 of the movies Abel Ferrara and Willem Dafoe have made together in the last five years before I see another Scorsese movie.

I'm good with just Shutter Island from the last two decades, thanks

Marty's good old boy movies remind me of those jokes about the movie Speed. Goodfellas in Vegas! Goodfellas in old New York! Goodfellas on Wall Street!

i get it if you are an olde-tyme film fan. you kinda HAVE to see his new movies. but i have the entire island of Hong Kong at my disposal. IN FACT I have 5 million world cinema movies that Martin Scorsese has given the thumbs up to that i want to see first.

wait, is hong kong an island....peninsula....? i'll google.