Exciting news from the folks at Bandcamp:
Bandcamp has announced a vinyl pressing service for its artists. The new service will streamline the financing, production, and fulfillment of vinyl records to help artists create additional revenue. With no up-front investment, an artist or label can create a vinyl campaign and start taking orders almost immediately. Once they reach their minimum goal, Bandcamp will press their records and ship them to their fans. The new service eliminates risk, since fans’ orders finance the pressing, rather than the artist or label and offers complete control, with the design and pricing up to the artist with Bandcamp taking no ownership of the record. The Bandcamp vinyl service will open to all artists and labels later this year with a few pilot campaigns already in the works.
You can learn more about this service here.
Source: Bandcamp to Help Artists Get Their Music Pressed onto Vinyl – Amplify
if I were talking to a group of young musicians, I guess I would say something along the lines of: The most important thing is to be in a band with your friends, and to play music that you love. If something happens, that’s great, but don’t expect it. I mean, I think it’s a really weird fluke that Mudhoney just happened to happen when we did and with the support of this label, which was just starting out at the same time.
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