Topic: do any of you use bandcamp..

to sell your music? how do you like it? i am looking to sell digital directly and i just heard about this.. i am tired of digital distros taking a cut and i dont trust them anyway. bandcamp looks like they charge 15%, and whatever paypal charges and offer different formats and stuff.. this seems pretty ok.. what am i missing? is there a catch? do normal people know about this?

http://bandcamp.com/faq

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I use it but my stuff is free on there right now. I know the IFM Digi store is on there and Alek Stark uses it to sell stuff. I would recommend based on my experience so far. Maybe IFX or Alek can tell you more.

3 (edited by Fred vom Jupiter 2010-10-13 13:29:11)

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I've made a thread about this a while ago. http://www.robotsforrobots.net/viewtopic.php?id=6709
biotek, Fossa and Mule Driver are using it for distributing their music. Maybe you can ask them.

edit:
The Label http://www.furtherrecords.org/ which I recommended in the thread, doesn't use it anymore. Maybe they have a          reason why.

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cool.. i searched for it and i didnt see that..
why isnt there somewhere you can just get the code to sell it directly from your own site? i would like to do that.

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this article is a bit older, but maybe there is something for you: http://www.newmusicstrategies.com/2008/ … y-website/

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speculator wrote:

cool.. i searched for it and i didnt see that..
why isnt there somewhere you can just get the code to sell it directly from your own site? i would like to do that.

you can easily embed bandcamp player in you site or even embed the whole bandcamp page as your music section on you web site.
i like bandcamp, it simple and friendly (for both user and seller imo). according to BC propaganda some artists (ex: sufian stevens) sells quite a lot.
i mange to sell some tracks and even few hard copies

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hmm.. too many options..

8 (edited by seanartfan 2010-11-09 00:30:38)

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Great domain name! (makes me think of flutes)
big_smile

Cool concept as well...but I agree, too many options can confuse people

Yeh, I'm an art fan, here are my two favorite artists:  Michael Kalish Art  and Chuck Close Prints

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god their upload tool sucks hard though. no bulk uploads, and a dodgy flash uploader that doesn't work on my win7 computer, but does on the XP.

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Yeah i was just wondering whether any bots were using BC. Just started putting stuff up for sale on there. The uploader works fine for macs.

If your interested

http://englishelectric.bandcamp.com/

I kinda see it as yet another way to get yo stuff out there, and i am trying to get my shit back together.

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