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

thanks for the Charnel Ground link, Ray. really enjoyed it yesterday

Good selection of a couple of recent releases to check out:
https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2018/04/26/bandcamping-spring-2018/

Please mention Bandcamp pages that have RSD deals on today.

Medical Records is doing 40% off.

This sounds way too good to be true, from an artist pov:

https://daily.bandcamp.com/2019/04/17/create-vinyl-with-bandcamp/

Wonder what the costs/thresholds will be, and if they can possibly keep up with demand?

(also possibly bad in the 'wasting physical resources' sense, but probably a drop in the bucket?)

G.S. Schray - First Appearance - https://gsschray.bandcamp.com/album/first-appearance

saw mention of this on the pitchfork "great records you might have missed in q1 2019" list, but didn't check it out 'til now. holy mother of god is it good, incredible atmosphere. talk talk drums, durutii guitars--it's obv not on that level but it's as absorbing a headphones listen as i've heard in a long while

akron power!!!

reminds me of Lanterna
love it

It’s from last year, but the Young Scum s/t is a very pleasant slice of neo-mope pop indie, a la Smiths.

https://kin-ship.bandcamp.com/album/uzun-havalar
I'm only three tracks in but this is enchanting

thoughts?

Bandcamp Record Store in Oakland

Greetings!

We recently opened a record shop and performance space, and hope you’ll come visit. We’re at 1901 Broadway in Oakland, California (right by the 19th Street BART station), and open Monday-Friday from 12pm-7pm.

The space features a selection of records that showcase the diversity and design of the more than five million albums available on Bandcamp, and we host free, all-ages shows and events (we’re launching a video series around those performances a little later this year).

If you’re heading our way and would like to get on our events mailing list, sign up here.

Hope to see you soon!

I popped in there last month, it’s kinda neat. Only a couple/few dozen titles for sale. I left right away because I didn’t want to talk to the salespeople.

lotta international titles iirc

love this -

https://dogbiterecords.bandcamp.com/album/classical-notions-of-happiness

pay what u want for 42 new tracks by Legendary Pink Dots and friends:

https://legendarypinkdots1.bandcamp.com/album/40-angels-the-archive

The "Sad About the Times" comp from Anthology get mentioned somewhere else but I feel like a bunch of people would enjoy it.

https://anthologyrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/sad-about-the-times

My catalog - probably not awesome to some but, hey, it's somethin'! - is 50% off thru end of March. Checkout code is 303. templo.bandcamp.com

https://templo.bandcamp.com/

very cool of them to do this

https://www.stereogum.com/2077059/bandcamp-pandemic-revenue-share-waive/news

Definitely lining up some purchases for Friday. Been so stuck on secondhand bargains lately, so it's time for some new music.

good timing! three hr Harvey mix up for $1or more, proceeds to charidee
https://harvey.dj/album/dj-harvey-live-at-rumors

With Bandcamp taking no cut and giving everything sold to artists on Friday 3/20, and me without kids and without losing my job so far, I've got the itch to support artists.

So over at Twitter, I'm doing a thing where I'm buying one of my favorite albums on Bandcamp by working artists, for the first 20 people to retweet one of those albums.

So, amazing music that normally costs money on Bandcamp but will be free, if you participate:

With all proceeds at @Bandcamp going to artists on Friday 3/20, Musicophilia is BUYING YOU the independent music we love.

FIRST 20 PEOPLE to retweet (1) of the albums linked below (+ DM me your choice + email so I can send it to you): the album is yours!

thru 9pm 3/20 EST! pic.twitter.com/lk8WjaNTfl

— Musicophilia (@musicophiliamix) March 20, 2020

Pye Corner Audio has made “Five Years in the Dark” available as a digital download for a very modest amount.

http://Bstep.bandcamp.com

well that was a lot of purchases

Please be patient with us today as there may be slowness and availability issues on the site. We’re working on them. Keep supporting artists!

— Bandcamp Status (@bandcampstatus) March 20, 2020

Yeah, it's creaking a bit, hope it doesn't go under! It's a nice vibe on twitter atm with everyone sharing links and repping for others.

here are the archives of the Bandcamp Monday thing I've been doing for years now if you need any recommendations! https://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/tagged/bandcamp-monday

Nice! I'm trying to RT and recommend stuff, twitter is m1ss3kawasak1 de-leetified (not entirely sure why I'm google-proofing it but I often feel weird cross-pollinating)

good shit soundslike, i bought the vinyl for that yves jarvis album today (my fav of 2019). also bought lots of other stuff (gonna have to chill on my media spending for the time being lol)

I like going to bandcamp's home page sometimes and look at the "selling right now" feature out of curiosity, but it moves so fast today you can't see anything and it made my browser crash

woo!
I think I spent about $220 on my and my daughters' favourite artists - I had a few downloaded things which needed paying for.

bought four albums today. mostly took chances on four new bands.

A good a time as any to link the all star cast for a certain ex Auxerre manager's nutmeg and rabona into the world of conviviality

https://guyrouxrecords.bandcamp.com/track/gk-rene-higuita

spent $300ish, last purchase competed at 11:57 p.m. Pacific time.

two things sold out while they were sitting in my basket, tho.

i immediately regret not grabbing the alabaster deplume.

I bought some stuff, would've bought more except the site was down until nearly my bedtime and when it came back you couldn't preview audio (it's good that it was so busy though!) and also the tax which gets added on after you go to the checkout was bumming me out a little

e.g. sweet, I have a voucher code and can get someone's complete discography for $27, may as well throw them $30 which is £25, good deal! *click* *type* *click* *login to paypal* oh, now it's £32. well... eh

anyway, this was a good thing to do, hope they do it again sometime, and also I really need to get my wishlist more organised for such events because my mind went blank

^this, for the most part

Nice to be overwhelmed by all the recommendations on twitter but in the end just went with things that have been on my wish list for a while.

i immediately regret not grabbing the alabaster deplume.

― alpine static, Saturday, March 21, 2020 3:35 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

I bought this! Mostly thanks to the ilx praise (though I'm a bag fan of that label)

I actually couldn't buy much as my financial future is pretty uncertain, so I made up for it with enthusiastic posting. Still need to check out the Alabaster Deplume, we have a gazillion mutual friends but I've never knowingly heard his stuff.

Bought some stuff from Little Axe Records. Nicely transporting me elsewhere during isolation.

I didn't give away all 20 albums on 3/20--so I'm going to keep this going! Check out the artists I tweeted below, share them, and DM me and the album is yours FREE.

Thanks @natepatrin @noisyspoon @GeekWayne @jeremy_okai @missekawasaki for joining in so far! https://t.co/SabuvKIPH8

— Musicophilia (@musicophiliamix) March 21, 2020

here's a question: who's the biggest artist legitimately on Bandcamp? like, giant pop stars aren't on there (that I know of) ... J Balvin put a cassette up there a while back but he doesn't have an artist page or whatever.

Wilco seems to be legitimately on Bandcamp. in lieu of anything better, maybe that's a reasonable starting point - who's bigger than Wilco and also on Bandcamp? some DJs I've never heard of, maybe?

define "big" however you like, of course.

Maybe too similar to J Balvin, but...

https://badbunnypr.bandcamp.com/

Not as big as Wilco but Car Seat Headrest was built up from Bandcamp and everything including early and Matador eras are up

Peter Gabriel's on there.

I started searching for names I knew and there is an “artist” selling “8D audio” versions of albums which sound like he/she played them in a large empty room and recorded it. https://lahservant.bandcamp.com/

I don't know about bigger than Wilco, but there are indie artists who focus on Bandcamp and sell many hundreds of records (milo/R.A.P. Ferreira comes to mind), and legacy indie artists (Low is on there too). Although I wouldn't be surprised if some of the best selling records are, like, video game soundtracks / metal bands / some corny electronic music I've never heard of.

this is the one I've been digging the past week: https://loveallday.bandcamp.com/album/spacetones (the whole label is pretty happening)

oh totally ... there's some video game music maker from Seattle that outsells everything else from that city on Bandcamp.

big on Bandcamp is one thing - and it's an interesting thing, for sure! i'm talking more like "big in real life but also on Bandcamp"

Peter Gabriel is an interesting one. i'm thinking more like that - lots of success in real life and somewhere along the line decided to post all or most of their albums to BC.

(also, i feel terrible, but when I mentioned J Balvin putting a cassette up a while back ... i was mixed up. that was actually Bad Bunny. my bad. if he maintains that presence and posts future albums there, he'd count.)

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I'd think not many "legacy" guys like Gabriel would own the digital rights to their big albums.