As vivid proof of that, I’m leading off with… I also did try to provide some genre scatter in the choices, knowing that not everyone loves everything, and to provide a range of radar elevations among the bands. I can’t say I’ve waded through all of it to make your shopping experience easier (I’m only one bedraggled human and speed-cloning is a generation or two away), but I did make my way through some of it, and have these recommendations for you.

On the plus side, I get to do something like this again on December 2nd! Vinyl sales revenue totaled $232 million in the first half of last year, representing 62% of all physical product sales.When you combine a Black Friday with a Bandcamp Friday the result is a goddamned typhoon of new music and videos, with bands and labels not only launching sales but trying to take further advantage of the situation with new releases, some of them out today and some now up for pre-order.Ĭorrection: As Nic pointed out in a comment on the post following this one, Black Friday was NOT in fact a Bandcamp Friday, and now I’ve forgotten why I thought it was. But vinyl is the one legacy medium that has actually grown in the streaming era - and as CD sales consistently dropped in the last decade, vinyl actually outsold CD purchases during the first half of last year in the U.S., according to a report from RIAA. With only a few vinyl plants in operation across the world, vinyl pressing costs can be too large an expense for many DIY artists.

The new service could be a significant development for independent musicians looking to sell vinyl records but unable to afford it. Bandcamp launched its pilot program for the pressing service last year, and on Thursday, the company opened up access to 10,000 more artists, noting that it will continue a wider rollout to more artists throughout 2021. Bandcamp is gearing up for a wider release of its vinyl pressing service - giving indie artists more access to one of the few growing physical music formats in a digital-heavy marketplace.

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