Today we’ve got a birthday, and they’ve got a wishlist of 296 items.
If you’re able, buy an album for someone you don’t even know on their birthday.
Otherwise, scroll through their wishlist and find something nice to listen to.
If you’d rather not give any money to Bandcamp today, we understand. Our birthday person has offered these organizations as an alternative:
➡️ Women's Reproductive Rights Assistance Project
➡️ Safelight
If you can, stop by Metal Bandcamp Gift Club Discord, where we’re discussing the recent Bandcamp layoffs, and how those actions might affect Metal Bandcamp Gift Club moving forward.
We’ve been doing Metal Bandcamp Gift Club since 2016 (here’s our interview with Bandcamp). Seven years.
We’ve helped bands and labels and artists sell a lot of music. This helped put gas in vans and shirts on merch tables. We love that.
It also made people feel good.
People loved getting music for their birthday, and the people who bought music - sometimes for absolute strangers - they felt something good, too.
All along, we knew a part of that money was going to Bandcamp, which was, at the time when we started this, an independent and profitable company.
We swapped emails with Bandcamp employees. They knew what we were doing, but it wasn’t anything official. It was a chill relationship.
But things aren’t so chill now. People losing jobs, people losing trust in a company that’s been so beloved to us for so many years.
We could sneer at the streaming services, knowing we had Bandcamp in our corner. Until, well, maybe they’re not in our corner anymore.
I don’t know the answer, I don’t know where this ends up.
Come join the discussion, or hit reply to this email and let me know how you’re feeling.