This is some SERIOUSLY exciting news. Partly because it’s just an amazing bit of news, but also because of the half a million or so artists on Bandcamp, I’m one of the first 2 or 3 to get to try this out.
Which means that YOU get to be part of this experiment in the future of music. In keeping music alive, in turning back the (quite possibly non-existent and hugely missplaced) tide of despair about ‘the way things are going’.
Here it is – £20 a year, and you get my 10 solo albums for free when you sign up!
This model works SO perfectly for me – since I started releasing almost everything as ‘digital only’ the ‘per album’ model was a compromise at best. It didn’t make sense for things to have a ‘unit value’ like that.
What this allows me to do if focus on making as many varied and wonderful musical projects as I can. You get more music, don’t have to worry about having ‘already spent enough’… you pay for it all in one lot, ahead of time, and get as much as I can make.
Subscribing becomes a club of sorts:
- there’ll be access to cheaper gig tickets wherever possible
- other subscriber only releases
- merch
- snacks*
(*probably not snacks)
At the moment I’m putting together a subscriber only album of things that are currently only streamable on Soundcloud or Youtube. I get asked ALL the time about releasing them, and this is where they’ll go. If you want them, subscribe.
This Is The Future
This Is Sustainability
This Is Exciting
You Get To Partner With Me
More Music Will Happen.
Sign up here: http://stevelawson.bandcamp.com/subscribe
So. Exciting. Hope it goes as well as expected!
thanks, Alex! I think part of the fun for me is that my expectations are pretty fluid. I genuinely have no idea if I’m going to end up with 25 subscribers or 500… Any more than that and we’re into fantasy territory… 🙂