Buy CDs, buy vinyl, buy merch, go see shows — support artists instead of platforms and middlemen wherever you can. This is a welcome trend.

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dylan604 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

There's a couple of artists that I would absolutely buy their vinyl except the shipping is more expensive than the vinyl. I've done it a couple of times for artists I really like and appreciate, but it is most definitely cost prohibitive.

So it's pay their bandcamp prices for the digitals and streaming, but the physical media is just made in too limited quantities to be affordable by anyone but FAANG employees

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nickthegreek 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I’m not sure if you live in big city or not, but if so, a visit to your local vinyl shop might be able to score you a copy. Or they might be able to order it in with their shipments.

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Acrobatic_Road 22 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I import a lot of stuff from Europe and the shipping is rough. I save by bundling items.

	▲	dylan604 6 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		If only I could get the artists I like to release at the same time

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cdrnsf 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Shipping on vinyl is rough — even shirts from anywhere outside of the US have tipped towards being hard to justify with shipping and all. I'll usually go for Bandcamp in that case (or buy something licensed in the US in the hopes that the license fee is at least something).

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dylan604 5 hours ago | parent [-]

> Shipping on vinyl is rough

I'm well aware. I used to co-operate a vinyl store and very familiar with shipping heavy vinyl. I really wish there was a bandcamp distributor model so that artists could ship to each distributor in bulk so the consumer did not have to pay international charges rather than drop shipping per order.

	▲	cdrnsf 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I'd love that — didn't CDBaby used to do that? Hopefully something'll crop up if the popularity keeps increasing.

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arthurjj 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I try to buy as many shirts as possible from bands I like and this post reminded me to go look again. I listen to a lot of metal and punk and the problem is most the shirts are either black, which overheat you in SoCal, or have designs that are aggressively ugly [1].

I wish more bands hired better designers or at least had shirts I wouldn't overheat in

[1] I own and wear this one so it's not always a deal breaker https://merchbar.imgix.net/product/174/7292/6127313518766/Zs...

	▲	cdrnsf 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I have a ton of shirts, but have been sticking to buy limited edition ones or from bands at shows lately. I live in SoCal (north of LA) and end up suffering in the heat. Nothing did some non-black ones for their new album at least https://bandofnothing.shop/collections/apparel/products/esse...

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localbolu 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I've been turning back to radio. So many talented DJs playing great music around the world.