Bandcamp

We make money via a 15% revenue share on sales.

Pretty much get all my music from Bandcamp. Hype/bullshit free, cheap and quality music galore.

so in case anyone wasnt paying attention, the following statement is non factual

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Bandcamp makes its money from fees for premium services, not scraping off a percentage of sales from that artist.

bandcamp makes their revenue exactly in that way, by shaving off a percentage of sales from the artist

aah shit that sucks, 15% is quite a lot too.. :/

  On 2/3/2012 at 10:06 PM, Awepittance said:

so in case anyone wasnt paying attention, the following statement is non factual

 

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Bandcamp makes its money from fees for premium services, not scraping off a percentage of sales from that artist.

 

bandcamp makes their revenue exactly in that way, by shaving off a percentage of sales from the artist

In general or starting at a certain revenue?

quite like this guitar drone piece

http://antropik.bandcamp.com/track/reticulation

to be fair, I found this on soundcloud . . I was like, "ambient metal group??? sign me up"

also that shitbird release that sneaksta posted was epic.

http://arbee.bandcamp.com/ (drone ambient)

http://coppicehalifax.bandcamp.com/ (milieu!)

http://disasteradio.bandcamp.com/ (synthpop/chiptunes)

http://etherkreet.bandcamp.com/ (experimental noise? Haven't had a chance to listen to all of them tbh)

http://transmuteo.bandcamp.com/ (ambient/new age)

  On 2/3/2012 at 11:49 PM, Cryptowen said:

http://arbee.bandcamp.com/ (drone ambient)

http://coppicehalifax.bandcamp.com/ (milieu!)

http://disasteradio.bandcamp.com/ (synthpop/chiptunes)

http://etherkreet.bandcamp.com/ (experimental noise? Haven't had a chance to listen to all of them tbh)

http://transmuteo.bandcamp.com/ (ambient/new age)

thanks for the link maaan, there's even a new release from this week :)

our own milieu:

http://milieu.bandcamp.com/

http://coppicehalifax.bandcamp.com/

some nice record labels:

http://heatdeathrecords.bandcamp.com/

http://hibernatereco...s.bandcamp.com/

http://recordlabelre...s.bandcamp.com/

http://music.ruralcolours.co.uk/

http://iabsentee.bandcamp.com/

others

http://eodtracks.bandcamp.com/

http://pselodux.bandcamp.com/

http://cryptowen.bandcamp.com/

actually, a lot of watmmers have a bandcamp page, cannot list them all !!

My ever expanding list of cheap and free music. http://rateyourmusic...ic_on_bandcamp/

  On 2/3/2012 at 11:25 PM, o00o said:

  On 2/3/2012 at 10:06 PM, Awepittance said:

so in case anyone wasnt paying attention, the following statement is non factual

 

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Bandcamp makes its money from fees for premium services, not scraping off a percentage of sales from that artist.

 

bandcamp makes their revenue exactly in that way, by shaving off a percentage of sales from the artist

 

In general or starting at a certain revenue?

in general for every sale you make, and if you get donation lower than the paypal fee itself and lower than the Bandcamp revenue percentage minimum you receive literally zero money and they eat it.

  On 2/3/2012 at 11:23 PM, vincentvc said:

aah shit that sucks, 15% is quite a lot too.. :/

Dude, I don't know where you'll find a label or method of distribution where you'll get a better percentage than that.

  On 2/4/2012 at 10:33 PM, autopilot said:

  On 2/3/2012 at 11:23 PM, vincentvc said:

aah shit that sucks, 15% is quite a lot too.. :/

 

Dude, I don't know where you'll find a label or method of distribution where you'll get a better percentage than that.

doing it yourself. ^^

then again you need to pay server costs etc. so yeah i guess you're right.

but when you've got a premium account do they still take the percentage?

  On 2/5/2012 at 11:02 AM, vincentvc said:

  On 2/4/2012 at 10:33 PM, autopilot said:

  On 2/3/2012 at 11:23 PM, vincentvc said:

aah shit that sucks, 15% is quite a lot too.. :/

 

Dude, I don't know where you'll find a label or method of distribution where you'll get a better percentage than that.

 

doing it yourself. ^^

then again you need to pay server costs etc. so yeah i guess you're right.

 

but when you've got a premium account do they still take the percentage?

yes they still take the percentage, having a premium account pays for premium features, not the hosting / file conversion.

as you said, you could do it yourself but then you'd have to worry about paying for bandwidth. so Bandcamp really does seem to be the best convenience/practicality trade-off compared to doing it yourself.

  On 2/5/2012 at 11:02 AM, vincentvc said:

  On 2/4/2012 at 10:33 PM, autopilot said:

  On 2/3/2012 at 11:23 PM, vincentvc said:

aah shit that sucks, 15% is quite a lot too.. :/

 

Dude, I don't know where you'll find a label or method of distribution where you'll get a better percentage than that.

 

doing it yourself. ^^

then again you need to pay server costs etc. so yeah i guess you're right.

 

but when you've got a premium account do they still take the percentage?

Plus, there's the cost of web design. I can't speak for anyone else, but there's no way I could make something as pleasant design-wise as BC. Then I'd have to hire someone to do the design for me on top of the server costs. Couple this with the convenience of having a lot of independent music on one website with great compatibility with Google and it's no contest.

I'm fairly certain Bandcamp does not have 'premium accounts'. I've never heard of such things and couldn't find anything on the website. Unless you're talking about the download codes you can voluntarily purchase within the free account.

  On 2/5/2012 at 5:03 PM, autopilot said:

  On 2/5/2012 at 11:02 AM, vincentvc said:

  On 2/4/2012 at 10:33 PM, autopilot said:

  On 2/3/2012 at 11:23 PM, vincentvc said:

aah shit that sucks, 15% is quite a lot too.. :/

 

Dude, I don't know where you'll find a label or method of distribution where you'll get a better percentage than that.

 

doing it yourself. ^^

then again you need to pay server costs etc. so yeah i guess you're right.

 

but when you've got a premium account do they still take the percentage?

 

Plus, there's the cost of web design. I can't speak for anyone else, but there's no way I could make something as pleasant design-wise as BC. Then I'd have to hire someone to do the design for me on top of the server costs. Couple this with the convenience of having a lot of independent music on one website with great compatibility with Google and it's no contest.

 

I'm fairly certain Bandcamp does not have 'premium accounts'. I've never heard of such things and couldn't find anything on the website. Unless you're talking about the download codes you can voluntarily purchase within the free account.

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Do you offer any premium features?

Yes, please see our full list of features here

http://bandcamp.com/pricing

When you click on that link it takes you to the list of features for the free accounts (which is the only type of account), then when you scroll to the bottom there are download codes and download credits, which are available for purchase to everyone with any account. There's no 'premium service' that you pay a fee for like Soundcloud or anything like that.

[edit] and actually you don't have to even pay for download credits if you have enough album sales.

  On 2/5/2012 at 5:58 PM, autopilot said:

When you click on that link it takes you to the list of features for the free accounts (which is the only type of account), then when you scroll to the bottom there are download codes and download credits, which are available to everyone with any account. There's no 'premium service' that you pay a fee for like Soundcloud or anything like that.

I don't know how I managed to get confused with soundcloud here

i'm a fucking retard, sorry

It's the avatar, bro. Too much nose.

yeah there has never been a premium service for bandcamp, they make plenty of money from shaving off the top.

my biggest complaint about bandcamp is that it's interface is way less configurable an modifiable than say Blogger

loving this today, free release

http://dasracist.bandcamp.com/album/shut-up-dude

you saw "combination pizza hut & taco bell" on youtube, right? these guys are baller.

highlights:

Rainbow in the Dark

Chicken & Meat (nice amen break in here)

Ek Shaneesh

Fake Patois

http://coax.bandcamp.com/

voila

http://basvanhuizen.bandcamp.com/

Noisy ambient drone blablablablbala