Music listening strategy

How to find and listen to music in a way that supports artists and gives the finger to the big corps.

I guess three parts of it - discovery, support, and sharing.

Why

I cancelled my Deezer subscription a long while back. With the intention of going back to indie music discovery and support.

Over the last 7 years, Spotify has earned me 4.3% of what Bandcamp has. Over the last 3 months it's 1.6%. Getting playlisted by the Spotify lords and heard by 50,000 people is worth as much as ~20 people deciding to pay a fiver for a release on Bandcamp.

[@datassette](https://twitter.com/datassette/status/1280417867679313920 pull)

Discovery

Can't beat curation in my opinion. So either DJs, or friends recommendations.

Streaming radio

BBC 6 Music

soma.fm

listener-supported, commercial-free, underground/alternative radio broadcasting to the world

I subscribe to soma.fm and mainly listen to the cliq hop, DEF CON, and Drone Zone channels.

Question: does this support the artists? Does soma pay it forwards - maybe there's some licensing fee?

Support

Bandcamp

Occassionally buy tracks from somewhere where artists get a good proportion of it. e.g. [[Bandcamp]]. Can't afford to buy every single track I like, so need to think of a way

Resonate

Stream from [[Resonate]] where the artists get much better pay than other platforms.

Sharing

Post links to music that you like, where the link goes to somewhere like [[Bandcamp]] (not a random upload of the track on youtube).