I feel more threatened by this latest acquisition of Bandcamp than the last one. Epic seemed like they just wanted small things from Bandcamp: Integration into Fortnite and a legal example to further their case against Apple and Google. It was a frivolous spend by a company that (at the time) thought they could be loose with money.
Songtradr looks very unlikely to leave Bandcamp alone.
There are not many great alternatives to Bandcamp. I’ve seen people sell albums on itch.io, but few are looking for music there, and the support for streaming and previewing aren’t there.
Also, I hope some researcher finds out what makes super rich founders like
Ethan Diamond go from being super rich and satisfied with helping listeners and musicians to wanting to sell to Epic to becomes mega rich. That guy just did not seem all that interested in being the richest man in the graveyard.
There was some study that found that even millionaires felt poor. Was it that? Did he really believe Epic would be serious stewards of music culture?
He’s so far from being the worst CEO, and I’m not trying to tear him down. I think any reasonable human can get into whatever conditions he was in as a successful owner of an honest business and maybe make the same decisions he did. I just want to know more about what those conditions are.