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Professor Black
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Anyone here do it? What site(s) do you use most? Bandcamp, itunes etc...
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dalecooper
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Used to be an emusic subscriber but that site took a serious nosedive in a lot of different ways. Every so often now I'll buy something on Amazon or Bandcamp. For the most part though, I'd prefer laying out a few extra bucks for a physical copy, if one is available.
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Angelcynn Lycanthrope
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It amazes me to see stuff on Amazon where the album on MP3 costs £7.99 and the cd can be bought "new and used from" £2 or something ridiculous
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BBQ Booking
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| Posted: Mon Mar 25, 2013 11:52 am Post subject: |
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| Bandcamp! All money goes straight to the band/label and they have great package options. So user friendly, too. |
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Dalen
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I never do it, I think paying for mp3s is rather ridiculous. But then again that's just my opinion.
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BreedingtheSpawn
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I bought one song from the new Mechina album Empyrean. I prefer buying the physical CD though.
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Speerhead
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| Dalen wrote: | | I think paying for mp3s is rather ridiculous |
Yep, mp3s are just a means to check out new things. Then I'll spend money on physical copies of anything I like.
Bandcamp is pretty good for streaming though. |
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Dodens Grav
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| I would only consider purchasing mp3s if there's no physical copy available. |
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Mikael
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| Well, at least in Bandcamp the material can be downloaded in various formats, like wav or flac, so you can download it as cd-quality instead of mp3. |
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ADB
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Bought from iTunes and Bandcamp. I'm not hugely hung up on the whole physical thing, I like records but I have no problem handing a buck over for a song on my phone (especially if it's the only song I like)
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Werewolf
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| Carpathian Florist wrote: | | It amazes me to see stuff on Amazon where the album on MP3 costs £7.99 and the cd can be bought "new and used from" £2 or something ridiculous |
If the CD price managed to get that low, most probably nobody will pay 8 Pounds for a download either.
| BBQ Booking wrote: | | Bandcamp! All money goes straight to the band/label and they have great package options. So user friendly, too. |
Indeed! Also you can choose the format of the download, which is something that makes Bandcamp better than CDbaby, for example.
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dalecooper
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| Dodens Grav wrote: | | I would only consider purchasing mp3s if there's no physical copy available. |
That's pretty much my policy now. I have a handful of albums that have never and likely will never been released physically, so I pay for the download instead. For a while I was consuming more stuff digitally, when I was on emusic, but the reason was that emusic was pretty cheap and I felt like I was still supporting the bands and labels - and back then they were indie-centric so it really seemed like it was bands and labels that needed the support. Since then they've jacked up their prices, added a lot of major labels and eliminated a lot of the small ones, so fuck 'em.
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Reaper's Grave
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i can't get around digital downloads, would rather just buy something physical and tangible.
And i'm going to look at it this way...if a band's releases are for sale digitally but not physically...this is not a band worth hearing, especially when so many amazing bands are putting out physical albums still, and even more so there's enough physical music currently in existence that i wouldn't even be able to listen to it all, so there will always be another band to get. |
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frank_zito
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| i paypaled someone four bucks once for a mediafire link of the venenum demo. |
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BBR
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The only digital release I bought was Spectral Haze's demo.
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