Bandcamp - Rant - Free download
Written by Ndrrk -
Maybe you didn't notice, but I put all my bandcamp's album on Free Download recently.
The new "payment system" (Stripe) won't work with me, not for the 4 to 5 albums a year I sell on it. Paypal, with all its flaws worked quite well for me and I don't want to change for Stripe. Also I don't care if I make money on my music, I put all my productions in "Name your price" for folks to have the albums in their collection, and put one album per Bandcamp with a minimum price to allow same folks to buy the full discography for cheap. But it ends now.
I don't know the future of the platform, but I'm not really optimistic, at least about my future on the platform. So I made backup of all my albums, and start thinking about hosting all of them here, on a place where I have full control.
I will lose some of the people who follows me and listen to all my work - I thank you a lot for that by the way, and the "promotion" would be more difficult to make, but I'm not sure I'd have a choice in a near future and even though, getting out is something I think about for a long time. And all of the con listed here are the sacrifice for not being locked-in.
Of course the releases on Bandcamp will stay where they are, but it's probable I won't publish anything here, sooner or later.
Anyway, thanks for reading my little rant, thanks for following me, and most of all thanks for listening my work, it means everything to me.
Take care of you, and be kind to others.