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I want to get in a time machine and rethink every purchase I made away from Bandcamp and every free ‘name your price’ download I have ever done. I know that is not a natural feeling, especially for music I have actually purchased, but there it is. You almost feel fraudulent for every album that you love that is not in your collection. What Bandcamp has done is make buying music mean more for the people buying the music. I don’t think I was even totally aware of what was missing until I set up my fan account on Bandcamp. But something was missing on the customer side. Because it always meant something to the artist making the music. And that feeling is, of course, completely selfish.

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an automated ‘thank you’ email and then maybe lastfm will scrobble the fact that I now have this album… and as far as a scrobble goes, I could just as easily of downloaded the track on a torrent site or BIRP.FM, or just listened to it on Spotify).īut now it feels like purchasing an album means more. I know from my own experiences, it was a lot easier to put in a 0 for a ‘name your price’ download back when the process felt more like 1’s and 0’s (i.e. And that’s a great thing for artists.Īnd it’s a great thing for fans too, as it finally puts a face (your own face) onto your music purchases in a meaningful way. You can ‘like’ something all you want (or ‘scrobble’, ‘heart’, etc.), but if you want an album to show up in your collection, you’ll need to actually get out your wallet and support the people who made it. If a tree falls in the woods and no one is around, did I really ever buy that album? The psychology behind what is in play now runs very deep.Ī music service has never so brilliantly propositioned us to put our money where our mouths are. There has been so much music that I’ve felt I’ve ‘supported’ over the years (whether that be in a blog post, or by putting a song in a mix, or etc.) and not seeing those same records in my fan collection is giving me an ulcer. I’ve had to show some serious strength not to buy more and more today (and I already know that strength will wear off by tomorrow, if not later tonight). There was this overwhelming urge that I needed to have ‘that’ album in my fan collection, as just having it in my iTunes now felt pointless (“where’s the proof?” I said aloud to no one). I say ‘shockingly’ because I can’t believe I just bought some albums that I already own (whether that be because I bought them somewhere else, or was sent them as a promo, or downloaded for $0). The incentive for someone to actually make a purchase now -whether that means putting a dollar amount in place of a 0, or just buying something that someone is on the fence about- is shockingly massive. They are going to have such a positive and powerful effect on music purchasing, it boggles my mind. And these fan accounts really are the icing on the cake (a cake, I know, that you are not done icing). What you have already done for artists could have been plenty, so the fact that you keep upping the ante is amazing and very much appreciated. However, if someone is passionate enough about a record to spend money on it – to actually support the artist who made it, and perhaps even write a bit about why they love it – that makes me much more likely to listen to that record, and perhaps add it to my collection as well.” 01 calories tapping a Like button… well that’s slightly more interesting, but I still don’t care much. And if someone listens to a song and then burns. If someone simply listens to a song, I frankly don’t care at all. “Bandcamp for fans is a social music discovery system based on the high-friction concept of ownership. I’ll just share why I say ‘thank you’ and ‘damn you’ in the title of this post. And like all things Bandcamp, they’ve posted on their blog everything you really need to know about the nuts and bolts of how it works, so I won’t delve into any of that in this post. But if I were to use it for the first time, I would feel pretty comfortable using it in a post about the Fan Accounts that Bandcamp just launched.Īs all things Bandcamp, it is extremely well executed, straight out of the box. In fact, I don’t think I’ve ever thrown it around. I don’t throw around the word ‘game changer’ much.

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