Comment by frankzander

7 hours ago

Tbh I would like to have a donation button on a artist website so I can donate and than download the album I like where I like.

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nemomarx  6 hours ago

Bandcamp is pretty close to this experience if they set it as "pay what you want" (which a lot of artists do)

  • Semaphor  6 hours ago

    > (which a lot of artists do)

    And those who don’t almost always only set a minimum price, so you can still pay more if you want. And if you buy on BC Friday [0] (next is February 6th), Bandcamp doesn’t even take a cut of the revenue.

    [0]: https://isitbandcampfriday.com/

    • embedding-shape  6 hours ago

      > And if you buy on BC Friday [0] (next is February 6th), Bandcamp doesn’t even take a cut of the revenue.

      Bandcamp Friday is such a fun day, I always have +5 purchases lined up from the previous month, and usually keep track of the social media of the artists I buy from that day, and many of them post something really wholesome about how much they made on that day :) Such a fun time all around.

al_borland  6 hours ago

Wouldn’t the artist offering you to buy the album from them, DRM free, accomplish the same thing while clarifying the transaction that’s happening?

toomuchtodo  6 hours ago

Same. Let me just pay you to be an artist, and keep putting art into the world (while avoiding middlemen and platforms whenever possible).

Aboutplants  6 hours ago

I’ve wanted something like this ever since the early Napster days. Patreon is the closest thing but that puts an onus on the artists to produce content all of the time. If some of my favorite less popular artists had their Venmo in their Instagram profile I would probably use that.

  • toomuchtodo  6 hours ago

    Ask them to! I’ve had good luck with this. “I want to give you money, pls put Venmo, Zelle, Cash App, Patreon, etc handles in your linktree thx”

dylan604  6 hours ago

I bought the vinyl release which also came with the digital download of an album last year. When the vinyl arrived, there was a handwritten personalized thank you note from the artist. Best of all worlds