"The record industry has been insulting the music-buying public’s intelligence for a long time, and the public is justifiably jaded. Why would a fan pay $12 for a download when 90% of that money probably goes to The Man, who turns around and gives 10% of it to the RIAA so they can sue little Timmy for using Leper Messiah in the video birthday card he made for nana?"
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From “BandCamp for Drummers” - a quick guide on how to use the BandCamp services on their website
Seriously, these people rock. Not only is their service free, easily embeddable everywhere and there’s no clutter or ads. In addition to that they’re, if you’ll excuse my sycophantism, fucking hilarious. Everything about that site just screams “we get it.”
Don’t get me wrong, I love Soundcloud, MySpace, Bandbase and all those other audio-sharing sites to bits, too. (Well, maybe not MySpace.) But Bandcamp take the cake as far as pure awesomeness goes.
