Most of the article is unrelated to music but Bandcamp being sold to Songtradr is big news

  • pipariturbiini@sopuli.xyz
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    1 year ago

    This is weird. Literally yesterday I was wondering when Epic would kill Bandcamp by making it streaming-only or some shit.

    • misk@sopuli.xyz
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      1 year ago

      They are likely making considerable amount of money on taking a cut of merch sales like physical records and apparel. If not then it’s still fairly hassle-free. Layoffs at marketing could mean that they don’t see much room for growth and that’s what business is about these days.