Beyond Spotify and Bandcamp: Rethinking How Fans Support Independent Artists
TL;DR at the bottom of the blogpost. A lot has changed since I wrote “Release Day Economics” in 2011 on Tumblr. Bandcamp was acquired, twice. Spotify became a platform for divisive Podcasters and former members of the British Royal Family. And I don’t really know what happened to Tumblr. The band I founded in 2007, Lire plus …