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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (6 children)

If you want to support an artist pirate their music and see them in concert.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is outdated and bad information. Most small artists lose money touring. Bigger artists might break even.

If you can buy merch, do that, if you can buy physically do that. Spotify is gonna pay pennies for thousands of streams, so nothing you do on spotify is going to benefit an artist. But "pirate and see live" is probably gonna result in a negative bank balance for artists.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Nothing short of handing them cash in person is truly a guarantee. Really depressing how it's turned out.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Bandcamp is a decent platform… for now

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Has anything really happened since they were acquired by Epic last year?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Epic sold it to a company called Songtradr, who shortly laid off a good chunk of the staff. They haven't done too much so far, but it could easily go south from here.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Faircamp might be a good avenue in the future.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That's not a guarantee either unless you know how much they spent getting in a position for you to hand them cash.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

I think Taylor Swift just about broke even, mostly thanks to my wife and her friends.

[–] Kecessa 40 points 1 year ago

Nice try ticket Master!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Some artists that people like may never come to their city

[–] Kecessa 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's rare for me to find merch worth buying, I prefer buying the music.

[–] Kecessa 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe buying it directly from their website might be the better option in this case? 🤔

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's about the effort artists make for merch, I don't want to buy a t-shirt with a simplistic design or just a sentence on it

[–] Kecessa 3 points 1 year ago

I meant buying the CD/music on their website

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Unless it's a ticketmaster concert because fuck them.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Lol. Yes, ticket service fees, venue fees, and reseller makerts is totally the best way to support an artist, especially if you live no where near a tour location.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago