Musicians. It's going to be hard to let go of the idea of what an album is 'worth' that we've inherited from the physical media age. But if you want Bandcamp sales to in any way offer an alternative to streaming, you've GOT to let go of this £8+ per album idea... See, there are people who will happily pay more for your music - the amazing thing with Bandcamp is, THEY STILL DO! Allow people to pay more, invite them to pay more, but FFS, don't make it so people who can't give you £8 for each album can't move away from the Spotify world...

listening to @lobelia test a live stream for her gig this Friday. It sounds SO great. Musicians, it's SO worth taking the time to get this shit right. The difference between this and someone's phone haphazardly set up is night and day. Here are some tips : @lobelia 1) If at all possible use a mic that isn't attached to the camera. The directional needs of a camera and a mic are totally different for music. For talking, they're way more aligned. So at the very least, sort out an external mic and take TIME positioning it.

This new album is doing so much better on album sales that anything I've done in years. At this rate, I'll be able to afford to replace my knackered soundcard solely with album sales 🙂 If you want delicious music and a super-warm feeling, head to music.stevelawson.net/album/beauty-a… ...I've had a couple of people ask about the new album not being on streaming platforms (not many, cos most people can work out why without my help), but I would've needed over 40K streams of it so far to earn what I've earned from the relatively modest sales so far...

This is from a really interesting thread re. music finance... Go read it. But the fascinating thing for me here is the idea of ' taken drastic control' - even back in the 90s, I couldn't imagine that a) anyone else would want to release what I did, & b) it'd never make money

https://twitter.com/petefrasermusic/status/1027238332454060032

I was already a journalist by the time I started thinking about releasing solo music, and so I'd met and interviewed some of the world's top bassists and pretty much none were making money on releases except at the merch table...