Hmmm, for buying automatically, you might be looking into Bandcamp Clubs. You pick one of such “clubs” and you get one album into your library each month that you can keep forever.

For downloading, there’s Batchcamp.

I personally don’t mind visiting the website whenever I have some spare time each month to get something. I also have a task that reminds me of Bandcamp Friday (spoiler: it’s the 1st Friday of almost each month). In the months when there’s no Bandcamp Friday, I just mark the task as complete and move on.

It took them quite a while. But if there’s also anyone else that’s still decided to build an actual music library, independent of streaming platforms, instead, here are a bunch of popular bands/artists that have some or all of their music on Bandcamp, among those that I listen to:

• Radiohead
• The Prodigy
• Molchat Doma
• Korn
• Bush
• Nirvana
• Foo Fighters
• Evanescence
• Gojira (music released under their label page)
• Arch Enemy
• Paradise Lost
• Killswitch Engage
• Rise Against
• Porcupine Tree
• P.O.D.
• Knocked Loose
• Mastodon (music released under their label page)
• Opeth - check the pages of Candlelight Records and Peaceville
• Alcest
• Insomnium - check the pages of Century Media Records and Candlelight Records
• Lacuna Coil (music released under their label page)
• Dream Theater (music released under their label page)
• Geese
• Cindy Lee

There are plenty of other indie bands that I recommend choosing from, but most people that stay on the streaming platforms stay for the big names - that’s why I wanted to create a list with names that are sure to be instantly recognizable for anyone who’s been listening to music in general, to a certain genre of music or who is looking for something more popular from the latest years. As a disclaimer, this is also why you might find some controversial names - I didn’t take my time to check all of these artists’ controversies; if there are any, let me know.

Remember, you can also support them by buying their albums on physical media (CDs, vinyls, cassettes etc.) or by going to their live shows whenever you have the chance.

Even if you decide to pay them something like $4 you have secured them more revenue than they gained by listening any of their songs for 1000 times, but if you buy their music on Bandcamp Friday, artists get a bigger share of the price you pay.

Why did I initially read this as Premium Pentium? lol

Ah, we’re returning to the good old memes of US bringing freedom for oil. What a time to be alive!

@Quexotic anything involving self-hosting is a hassle though, and the advertising is not there, unlike anything that comes from big tech. But the results are highly rewarding.

Not if you become accustomed to it and revolve your daily habits around it. But yeah, once she will get home assistant it will clearly be a liberating experience.

Nothing yet, and still undecided. Dealing with the hangover now, lol.

So now I see previews are useful here on Friendica 😁

Stuff was tried and is being tried. For example, in my country, local supermarkets are giving away food that’s close to due date at a discount (mostly it’s 50%). It’s an easy way of buying food for cheap.

Furniture can easily be restored instead of being thrown away. And parts of that furniture (if it’s damaged beyond repair) could be recycled (i.e. glass).

I have a friend who chose not to replace his 50+ year old wooden floor in his house, but rather call a restoring company. He sent me a pic with that done and it’s looking gorgeous.

If it is something for the homeless people inside the same city, it’s fine. However, I was thinking about the scenario where food would get transported from the richer parts of the world to the poorer parts of the world. In that case, I do not see the viability of a “last chance” - part of the food would still get spoiled and thrown away, unless you want to feed the poor some spoiled food.

I’d rather see more people educated not to buy too much food in the first place, then direct the remaining to the poor (and even, if possible, produce less in the 1st place. Have fewer cows, less agricultural land and more wild terrain (forests and the likes) if possible).

That’s true

I agree about the furniture, electronics and housing part. But food gets spoiled rather rapidly unfortunately. Any effort to give food away to those in need would have to move the goods quick enough.

Disappointed. I was hoping to actually see Gabe’s face.

@remington thanks!

Not Bulgarian, unfortunately, as I was not talking about Bulgaria, but Romania. Be hopeful as well though 😁

@remington yayyy, waiting for our chiefs of the judiciary to follow suite.

Makes sense. Looks like it’s all plastic.

Something is off. I see no bulletproof vests in the 2nd pic.

Yeah, I know. But it’s still a different platform, lol.

I booked it too btw. Initially I thought 95.something€ was the full price. Now I’m unsure if I will continue since my phone is only 2 years old (although I dislike where Google is heading Android and Sailfish looks sick af)