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A "Thank You" update
17 years of support
Some transparency
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#v4v
Thank you everyone who has purchased my music over the years. I started using bandcamp in 2008 as a way to allow people direct and easy access to digital files of releases from my back catalog. Occasionally a few pieces of physical merchandise would appear if available.
I needed to learn how it worked myself before I could help others get their own music catalogs added later on. As with many platforms and protocols you also never really know which ones may expand user adoption. Bandcamp seemed to be a good fit for the solo music hobby I've been galavanting along on. Mostly this was assessed as I didn't need monetary investment up front...just my time and patience to figure out if the site worked simply and then testing as features were added.
Most of the money that came in was reinvested in buying download credits quietly behind the scenes each month and keep the "pay what you like" option and nobody was obligated to pay for the music. It just remained optional for any interested party exploring my catalog. If you found value in it, you could exchange it with either time, treasure or talent. Many of you have shared my tracks or videos on your own pages, or played these tracks at events you've performed at as well. There is no right or wrong way because value is subjective and you decide what feels right. Thus "value for value".
For the treasure aspect see below.
$10,000 over 17 years
Is about $588 a year
Which is roughly $49 a month
Download credits were then purchased in chunks of $20 for 1000 credits (per song/track)
The adventure continues!
Then I found V4V in fall of 2022 and started putting releases up on RSS.com and trying to learn podcast 2.0 tags. This led to those first days with
@Wavlake in January of 2023 as an early artist uploading hundreds of tracks to again play in the "learning by doing" zone.
That next spilled into this wild nostr zone and am now incredibly excited for the future and learning from many of you as well.
Here's to the next 20 years and another 20 after that just exploring the sounds and rhythms that unfold each day.
Love you all and stay curious!
PB - Tonewrecker
