In an effort to keep my sanity, I’m moving this newsletter from Mailchimp, which is better suited for actual email marketing, which this is not. We’re a birthday club, and we’ll highlight the occasional album or two from time to time, and Substack can handle that just fine.
If you’re new to Metal Bandcamp Gift Club, we’ve been around since 2016, a loosely organized bunch of folks buying metal albums for each other on their birthdays. It’s a great way to discover some good music, and it makes each birthday a little brighter (and the bands and labels love it, too).
It’s an odd “sell” for a newsletter - you check out someone’s Bandcamp wishlist, and if you got the cash you gift an album, and if you don’t maybe you just find something nice for yourself. No free shipping, no top 10 lists - you sort of figure things out with each email but hey, we’ve been doing this since 2016, so it works.