It’s frustrating to live in a world where streaming is the main way to consume music. I found this German band from Berlin called “Von Wegen Lisbeth” because of their son “Wenn du tantzt” which has great music and great text: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2JRghbgeYw

So I was thinking, it would be cool to buy the Album so I can listen to it. I normally buy and listen to albums not singles. But where do you buy it digitally? I don’t want a CD or Vinyl because I live in Korea and I will need to move and don’t want to deal with physical media.

I thought, in the past I found music on Bandcamp, so I went there and found https://vonwegenlisbeth.bandcamp.com but there they only sell their first album which doesn’t have the song on it.

On their website https://www.vonwegenlisbeth.de/ they link to a shop where you can seemingly buy all their albums: https://krasserstoff.com/vonwegenlisbeth#merchcat-vonwegenlisbeth-musik butonly on Vinyl and CD, not for download.

Then I thought perhaps I could just pirate it, but the band seems to be too small, they don’t show up on The Pirate bay.

I checked Spotify and all their albums are there, but I don’t want to pay a subscription every month.

Isn’t it weird that you can’t buy a digital copy of a bands music? Where do people buy music digital copies nowadays?

  • variants@possumpat.ioEnglish
    4·
    5 months ago

    Contact them and ask them to update their bandcamp, if they are small they might reply to you and it should be pretty easy for them to do.

    My friend is a musician hobbyist and had his music on spotify so I asked him to setup a band camp and he did it right away. After that I was able to buy his music and add it to my plex. I even updated thr music musicbrainz with his music info so plex could show it correctly

    • Jeena@jemmy.jeena.netOP
      2·
      5 months ago

      There are several reasons why I don’t want a physical CD:

      I have no space for it

      I don’t want to carry it when I move

      It’s a lot of work to sell it

      I need to pay shipment around the world to Korea

      The production and shipment creates unnecessary CO2, so it’s even bad for the environment

  • Jeena@jemmy.jeena.netOP
    1·
    5 months ago

    Thanks everyone for offering the albums to me. I looked around and I seem to be able to download them from YouTube too.

    I was genuenly trying to find something like Bandcamp which would have more bands, because the next one is Paramore which I’d like to get their latest album. I at least hope that some of the money would go to the artists to make more music in the future.