Get past the American Pie innuendo inducing title and you find a real gem of a website that is a must for all independent artists looking to get their music online. About a year old now, Bandcamp provides a home to host and display your music and ultimately if you so wish, flog it easily to your fans. Services like this have been around for many moons but what makes Bandcamp different is it's willingness to keep it's nose out of artists business and allow them to customise their pages as they see fit. When you visit a Bandcamp page you see exactly what the artist wants you to see and you don't get Bandcamp screaming in your face, nor do you get pesky third party advertisers popping up every five seconds promoting teeth whitening services and other highly irrelevant tosh.
Furthermore, a Bandcamp account is free for artists - they make their money by taking a 15% revenue share on sales. If an artists makes over $5000 in sales revenue, the share that Bandcamp take is reduced to 10%. If somebody buys your music from Bandcamp, the money goes directly into your designated Paypal account, Bandcamp don't hold on to it and pay you as and when they feel. If you want a great looking, easy to manage home for your music online then Bancamp is the only sensible choice.
And here's some lovely tracks from Bandcamp... Yeah, they let you embed your tracks on other websites too!
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