TBH I've found it's easier to go find a lossless rip of a CD I already own on the internet, than to rip it myself. It takes seconds to drop the name into, e.g., Soulseek, and then dump the result into XLD.
That said, I still do patronize a number of artists on Bandcamp because I dig what they do.
For a long time I thought "there's got to be a backlash at some point," since I imagined that music streaming services were quietly siphoning the wallets of an entire generation. Then my nephews pointed out to me that the music industry is being hollowed out by artists that I've never heard of using distribution channels I've never thought of. Good on 'em. The key thing is the fragmentation: There is basically no longer a music industry. Musicians are distributing digital content in ways that compensate them and at no point is a rights-managing record label involved.
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That said, I still do patronize a number of artists on Bandcamp because I dig what they do.
For a long time I thought "there's got to be a backlash at some point," since I imagined that music streaming services were quietly siphoning the wallets of an entire generation. Then my nephews pointed out to me that the music industry is being hollowed out by artists that I've never heard of using distribution channels I've never thought of. Good on 'em. The key thing is the fragmentation: There is basically no longer a music industry. Musicians are distributing digital content in ways that compensate them and at no point is a rights-managing record label involved.