Bandcamp bought by Epic Games

Yeah, that sucks. That's the one place on the net that I bought music from. The only reason Epic would have bought it was to ultimately fuck it up.
 
axifist said:
Let's wait first how it develops over time. Right now it's still a great place to be both as an artist (I have my stuff on there aswell) and a customer.
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That's fair, but inductively:

i) MP3.com was cool. Got bought. Became cr*p.

ii) eMusic was cool. Got bought. Became cr*p.
 
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And (sorry for the follow-up), when more entities are grabbing for money (Epic and Tencent), it has to come from somewhere. The artists will make less and have less control.

I just really hate the impulse to monetize every f***ing detail to the gills. I'm not against profit, to be clear. Bandcamp takes about 15%, which seems fair. They claim they gave $206 million to artists last year, so that means (back of envelope calculation) they took in approx. $36 million in revenue last year.

The basic functionality of Bandcamp is relatively simple. Anyone want to start a (real) independent competitor?
 
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