How likely are you to buy music from an indie musician? Do you buy merch from bands you like? Have you ever bought anything from someone's Bandcamp or other digital download sites? Do you go to local shows?
If you don't, what's stopping you? Personal financial troubles? General anxiety about the economy? Something different?
I'd like to get a broad view of Lemmy on this. I see a lot of people promoting piracy without elaborating around here. Their position on big labels is clear to me, but I'm always curious where they stand on indie art.
Are they only mad at the likes of Universal and Warner, or do they think "making music shouldn't be job"?
EDIT: While we're at it, feel free to recommend some albums too :D
In exchange for cancelling my Spotify a long time ago, I try and buy about one-two (?) albums a month on Bandcamp.
I do download a lot of music off YouTube, though. I used to buy merch and go to shows a lot, but I don't make nearly enough as a grad student to justify that anymore. I also used to live a lot closer to a great music scene and venues to where that was super convenient for me, and I never paid more than $30-40 for a show. Not the case anymore.
I will say, I don't really draw a distinction between major labels and indie labels for any of this. Often major label records are not on Bandcamp so I tend to either not listen to them or just play them off YouTube, really. I wouldn't go out of way to buy merch or vinyl for them, maybe CDs if I can find them for cheap enough. It really is just a financial thing of, "is it affordable for me to support this properly", indie or not.
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