To anyone who says make your own website, Good luck with that. I've made complex websites, but all the functionality on these merchant sites is a huge amount of maintenance and setup, unless you do your own website through another CMS.

Cedric was deep into Scientology for years.

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Never really listened to them, but wish them well with the new singer 👨‍🎤

I'm still rooting for you. Keep it up. Slow and steady wins the race!

Where can we watch it?!

Glad I saw your video as I was just researching to sign up to sell my instruments as I was told it's a decent platform. Damn I'm bugged now 😅 Thanks man

This individual isn't being clear or honest about their interest, scare stories about bandcamp come along every few months. @Artists considering the advice offered here: managing your own web store is lot more time consuming, involved, and costly than J would have you believe.

#ninaprotocol

bandcamp has been nothing but fantastic for me

nah

I want to make clear that the actual wording in the terms of conditions talking abt this is purposely vague because… that’s just how the legal world works. Lawyers and legal people do that just so there’s flexibility when the time comes in the future where BC gets into stuff like that. So in short, I think you’re blowing this way out of proportion. This new change to the T&C isn’t that new, I saw a Twitter thread talking abt this a few months ago, but if this news discomforts you in any way, do the thing makes you comfortable in how your art is used and represented. It’s still a good way to support artists tho, given the indie cred that it’s built up over the years, so idk make up your mind abt it Edit: TL;DR this new change to the terms and conditions doesn’t mean they WILL use your music, it just means they COULD in a situation where they have to for some reason

im convinced anyone at this point saying not to put music on bandcamp has been paid off by spotify

Bandcamp was bought by Epic in 2022 but then sold in 2023, I've been on BC since about 2018 but going hard since 2020. It's been the only single revenue stream worth banking on my music most of the others cost me to keep my music up - in fact Bandcamp keeps the rest afloat. The rights ownership thing is not true - Bandcamp states artists will always receive the highest revenue split. The weirdest part is that my sales saw a huge spike around 2022 and have continued climbing, thus resulting in the Epic acquisition perhaps being in favour of artists/Bandcamp in general - atleast that's what the stats say.

Just signed up for bandcamp the other day because im looking to post my stuff on there, had no idea that this had happened. Thank you for sharing this.

I'm not an artist but I absolutely love Bandcamp. Not as much now that with the most recent sale taking rights away from artists with regard to publishing rights. I agree that it's probably time for artists to promote on their own websites or maybe partner with a merch store to host the music sales

at this point i wish discord had shop integration so artist can build their community and sell to them directly

Bring back CDs!

We always have physical media, too. I hope CDs make a huge resurgence just like Vinyl did

epic actually sold bandcamp to songtradr, so you may need to make a new vid

i've made a few hundred from bandcamp and just over $30 from streaming, i mean it is what it is 😵‍💫😔

i still dont think there is a better platform than bandcamp which is super unfortunate

dude that's like the only platform i can afford to release on rn. why

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Unfortunate. The only place I can buy music from is Bandcamp. Most other places like qobuz only serve USA, UK, and Australia

so this video randomly showed up in my recommended, and looking back over Bandcamp's terms of use, I think the idea that they can "exploit your music however they see fit" might just be a misconception? I went back to double check the paragraphs regarding the intellectual property rights of artists and they did in fact use the word "exploit" several times in a way that sounds like what you briefly described, but it was only being used in the legalese context of how taking their standard 20% or whatever cut of the revenue legally counts as "exploitation" or how creating a downloadable zip of wav files counts as "reproduction" or automatically converting it to MP3 if a fan so chooses that option legally counts as a "derivative work", etc., just the legally binding rights to run the site itself and nothing else. I'm obviously not a lawyer so don't take my word for it, but I don't think the artists lost any level of control that they had before don't get me wrong I know exactly where your suspicions come from, with the company having changed hands multiple times behind the scenes and especially after Songtradr bought them up and laid off like half their (already small) staff I will not deny feeling some level of paranoia that something shady of that nature could eventually be implemented, and to your point that kind of paranoia obviously wouldn't be present if I purely distributed my music through a self-owned website. but I don't think anything of that particular shady nature has actually come to pass for Bandcamp yet, as someone who regularly uses the site every day both as a music fan and an artist it seems to operate pretty much the exact same way it always has

This news is upsetting because I love Bandcamp, I never found another platform that has so much high quality independently released music on it. I paid for a lot of the albums that weren't just being given away for free on there and it's upsetting if that money didn't reach the artist because stealing intellectual property is not ever ethical and it seems the wrongdoing aforementioned in the video is the kind of thing that Prince fought against when he was still here. Also there definitely is not a platform that has more instrumental hip-hop, vaporware, or dubstep.

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Good idea to make a website. I'm not satisfied with neither spotify or bandcamp. And it's been also demotivating in some of my latter production steps like mixing, where i'd have anxiety about distribution.

wow. had no idea that bandcamp got bought up by Epic. welp time to pull my whole discography lol

So I guess the genius higher ups at GC have determined catering to the blues lawyers is the way to go.

nope. and it aches my soul. i reached out to Clouds Hill and they just gave me a "oh its coming". that was over a year ago. kinda whack. not everyone has the time to travel to film festivals lol

I have tried to look for it online everywhere but it has been impossible. Btw seeing them live it has to be one of the greatest experiences of my life. I cried

I have this exact guitar. Same color even. Only thing i changed was the string tree as well. The pickups are great. I use the trem quite extremely and it stays in tune with abuse.

Heel joint is really nice t bad the neck doesn’t follow the contour of the heel.

This Album is my personal 10/10 Album cos it's pure perfecttion as an concept Album.

Good talk, you also hear about "studio magic" with Led Zeppelin, Korn, and Nirvana. The producers giving them this big, overdubbed sound and helping them sound better than they were live. But also you have to remember they are just people, expectations can get pretty high.

You have a good broadcasting voice

The updates are nice added features that was needed to compete with the Silver Sky SE. As a lefty guitar player, the rollout for left handed options and finishes was kinda disappointing, so I probably not going to get one. The only guitar in the lineup that is enticing for me would be the new yellow finish telecaster.

Is the whole band left-handed? LOL!

Yo! let me check out that pedal board next time Bru!

Do thah damn thang Bru!

Turn your amp up man, the bass and drums was drowning you out 😅

Fender is putting a lot of features in the mexican line that were in the higher end models. i think they are great guitars overall with a premium for getting a fender. i wouldn't upgrade my player strat though, cause the guitar is already pretty good imo. rosewood is a welcome change too.

They fixed several problems with the original Player; tuners, rolled edges, rosewood fingerboard, maybe pickups?

Back then i went for MIJ Hybrid because of rosewood rather than Player Series with the pau ferro. this time i might considered player ii but i prefer MIJ.

I love all the changes they made 100% worth it 💯👍🤘

Great vid. Make more

I’m seeing even lower prices on Temu at the moment. I’m resisting the urge to get this one but I am seriously tempted

Is the neck pocket standard Fender Strat sized?