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Jeez. That's a lot to go through. Believe it or not, seeing the album art actually makes a difference whether I'll click on the band. I don't get it. Can you recommend 2 or 3 bands you would try to get one of your friends to listen to? Just looking for something new...
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http://scottandcharleneswedding.bandcam ... ocial-club I've been on pretty serious Aussie kick for the past year or so. I should probably do a thread for it, but I'm a lazy man. This is a pretty good one. Equal parts, pop, psych, and down under weridness.
Post subject: Re: Bandcamp bands that are actually good?
Posted: Tue January 15, 2013 8:50 am
Yeah Yeah Yeah
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super nintendo chalmers wrote:
Bandcamp is great. Theres an phone app, Bandcamper, that lets you bookmark bands' pages.
Yeah I use it but it's a bit sketchy, doesn't let you search for bands unless you type the exact name, can't browse by tags etc. Although bandcamp itself desperately needs a better search/browse feature.
I've listened to that one last year after someone posted about it here (must have been you, I guess), that stuff isn't really what I enjoy but it was not bad from what I remember.
A friend made me listen to that one, I do like its shitty VU-ish sound but it gets a bit tiresome after a few tracks.
j's brain wrote:
Jeez. That's a lot to go through. Believe it or not, seeing the album art actually makes a difference whether I'll click on the band. I don't get it. Can you recommend 2 or 3 bands you would try to get one of your friends to listen to? Just looking for something new...
Well like I said it's hard (for me) to give recs if I don't know what kind of stuff you want to hear, but I'll try to give you some of the more straightforward/accessible stuff (meaning I'll skip the metal and the instrumental).
the caveat is that you need to actually buy stuff on there to be able to sign up. though i think downloading for $0 counts as a purchase. i signed up for an account just to give it a go.
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So how does one get a Bandcamp fan account?
It’s easy: buy something and we invite you. If you’ve already made purchases through Bandcamp, visit http://bandcamp.com/fans and follow the instructions there.
Post subject: Re: Bandcamp bands that are actually good?
Posted: Tue January 15, 2013 12:52 pm
AnalLog
Joined: Wed January 02, 2013 12:24 pm Posts: 1232
conoalias wrote:
mf wrote:
though i think downloading for $0 counts as a purchase
I did this but I didn't seem to work
that would be a misstep if they don't count. the idea is to drive more sales for the bands so getting a user into the system with a freebie download would have them in their network. i figured you would have made a lot of bandcamp purchases. i've only made a couple i guess. i figured it was more.
Post subject: Re: Bandcamp bands that are actually good?
Posted: Tue January 15, 2013 1:34 pm
Yeah Yeah Yeah
Joined: Sat January 05, 2013 4:29 pm Posts: 60
mf wrote:
conoalias wrote:
mf wrote:
though i think downloading for $0 counts as a purchase
I did this but I didn't seem to work
that would be a misstep if they don't count. the idea is to drive more sales for the bands so getting a user into the system with a freebie download would have them in their network. i figured you would have made a lot of bandcamp purchases. i've only made a couple i guess. i figured it was more.
I don't buy digital. If I really like something I'm gonna buy the record. But yeah it would definitely be wise to let as many people as possible into the system, especially since we alread give our e-mail adress when we "buy" free albums. Make these accounts have less features so they have an incentive to buy something for real.
Post subject: Re: Bandcamp bands that are actually good?
Posted: Tue January 15, 2013 1:46 pm
AnalLog
Joined: Wed January 02, 2013 12:24 pm Posts: 1232
conoalias wrote:
mf wrote:
conoalias wrote:
mf wrote:
though i think downloading for $0 counts as a purchase
I did this but I didn't seem to work
that would be a misstep if they don't count. the idea is to drive more sales for the bands so getting a user into the system with a freebie download would have them in their network. i figured you would have made a lot of bandcamp purchases. i've only made a couple i guess. i figured it was more.
I don't buy digital. If I really like something I'm gonna buy the record. But yeah it would definitely be wise to let as many people as possible into the system, especially since we alread give our e-mail adress when we "buy" free albums. Make these accounts have less features so they have an incentive to buy something for real.
I'm the same way. The few bandcamp purchases i have made were for CD's with a digital download.
Post subject: Re: Bandcamp bands that are actually good?
Posted: Wed January 16, 2013 8:03 am
Yeah Yeah Yeah
Joined: Sat January 05, 2013 4:29 pm Posts: 60
kreng wrote:
I'm signed up, how do I find people. And more importantly, this needs to be linked to last.fm
On album pages you can see who else bought the album (listed under "Supported by"), click on their profile, see what other music they bought etc. Apparently you can also "follow" people so I guess that lets you know when they buy something.
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