[dddavid]

I bought a CD from an artist (The Burning Leaves) through Bandcamp. Even though the artist lives, like 500m from me and I could have just asked her. Just to give Bandcamp my business and their cut to help them along (also it would have been weird).

I've discovered so much through Bandcamp that I would have otherwise not known about, and bought so much I otherwise would have pirated.

I think it's the help the platform help the artist thing that gets me. It means nothing in the end.

[emmanueloga_]

How do you discover stuff through bandcamp? The follow feed? Their front page articles? Search?

[throwaway17_17]

I tend to go digging through the artist you might like list on pages of music I’ve purchased. It’s not guaranteed I’ll stumble across something, but I do tend to find other artists I end up purchasing from.

[e12e]

The Bandcamp weekly podcast (now bandcamp radio) was (is?) great for discovery.

[dddavid]

yes!

[joveian]

Lots of indie musicians are on small labels and often multiple small labels so looking at the other artists on the same labels is often a good method (link usually pops up in the upper left corner).