I don't listen to music on my phone, but when we got a new car with no CD player, I realized that I could simply stream the albums I'd been buying through Bandcamp for years. Love the site. I'm mostly into metal, but other genres seem equally well represented, and it feels good to give money directly to musicians or to indie record companies.
Metal, eh? I did not expect that! But I'm a new covert to Metallica because they seem to be good guys. I love buying through Bandcamp. The artists get a good chunk of the money.
Metallica's drummer, Lars Ulrich, is a complete dick (and a lousy drummer), but the rest of them are decent enough (this is the general notion in the metal community, but I was able to verify it with two people who actually interacted with them, a music producer/old rocker I knew in London, and my neighbor here in Plummer's Hollow, who worked a show of theirs as a medic and hung out with them backstage). Their generosity is absolutely to be applauded, though I think they do understand that they're kind of ambassadors for metal. Their first five albums, made with their original bass player, are as important to the evolution of metal as the first six albums of Black Sabbath. The "Master of Puppets" album is their masterpiece, I suppose, but it was the "...And Justice for All" album that converted me to metal, with its killer track about nuclear winter, "Blackened." So. Many. Great. Riffs! And all these years later, as much as my tastes may have evolved, when it comes to metal I am still mainly about the riffs and the rhythm section.
I don't listen to music on my phone, but when we got a new car with no CD player, I realized that I could simply stream the albums I'd been buying through Bandcamp for years. Love the site. I'm mostly into metal, but other genres seem equally well represented, and it feels good to give money directly to musicians or to indie record companies.
Metal, eh? I did not expect that! But I'm a new covert to Metallica because they seem to be good guys. I love buying through Bandcamp. The artists get a good chunk of the money.
Yes, and I see that they're still doing Bandcamp Fridays, when 100% of profits go to the musicians. I never have the patience to wait to buy stuff then: https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/bandcamp-fridays
Metallica's drummer, Lars Ulrich, is a complete dick (and a lousy drummer), but the rest of them are decent enough (this is the general notion in the metal community, but I was able to verify it with two people who actually interacted with them, a music producer/old rocker I knew in London, and my neighbor here in Plummer's Hollow, who worked a show of theirs as a medic and hung out with them backstage). Their generosity is absolutely to be applauded, though I think they do understand that they're kind of ambassadors for metal. Their first five albums, made with their original bass player, are as important to the evolution of metal as the first six albums of Black Sabbath. The "Master of Puppets" album is their masterpiece, I suppose, but it was the "...And Justice for All" album that converted me to metal, with its killer track about nuclear winter, "Blackened." So. Many. Great. Riffs! And all these years later, as much as my tastes may have evolved, when it comes to metal I am still mainly about the riffs and the rhythm section.
It's easy to move a Spotify playlist? I'll look into it.
Yup! https://www.tunemymusic.com/