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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?

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

Actually I have the same issue for years. I used to buy from Amazon and Bandcamp, but Amazon is...Amazon and Bandcamp does not offer most of the music I am listening.

If you do not want to scrape from YouTube here are their three albums, each as zip file with MP3 320 kbit/s: nextcloud link

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah exactly, Jeff Bezos really doesn't need more of my money. I wish bands would sell their music on their website somehow, like with stripe or something like that.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Artists signed to bigger labels most likely will not get to Bandcamp. The greedy corporate suits want to control the supply of their product and imagine that letting people buy access to the actual files increases piracy. Or something like that.

I know you were against it in the post, but you could buy a CD, copy the files with a CD ripper (e.g. Exact Audio Copy) and then sell the CD second-hand if you don't want to keep it.

Remember to also take backups of your digital music library! Preferably on two different locations, so your home burning down will not kill your collection.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

I'm having a backup in a external hard USB hard drive, off site on a Synology at my parent's house, and then I sync the music to my two phones, two laptops and to my server. I guess this is enough ^^

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks 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

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Nextcloud, hell yeah!

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Yessss

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