Is old music killing new music?

Re:Is old music killing new music? by Semaphor on Thursday January 20, 2022 @04:19AM (#30006629)

Depending on your genres (there’s not a ton of music that is being played on the radio), you might want to check out Bandcamp [0]. You can follow labels or musicians to get notified of new releases, most of the time you can stream the whole album unlimited times for free before deciding to buy it, downloads have multiple formats available including lossless. It’s where I get 99% of my music from (the outliers being some very few I have to get from Amazon, and one Danish dude [1] who hates the modern world and only sells CDs via snail mail)

For new Metal releases, I used to subscribe to the RSS feed for a Metal torrent tracker, I mostly stopped listening to bigger bands, but before that, the notifications were better than what I could find elsewhere.

[0]: https://bandcamp.com/

[1]: https://nagelfestmusic.com/

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Re:Is old music killing new music? by benrjackson on Thursday January 20, 2022 @05:50AM (#30007234)

Thanks for the second link. Years ago I emailed Erik Ravn about getting copies of some hard to find Wuthering Heights albums. He mentioned that he was working on remasters after he got the rights back from the record company. Glad to see he finally got it done.

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Re:Is old music killing new music? by Semaphor on Thursday January 20, 2022 @06:01AM (#30007314)

Yeah, more are still to come. Also check out his new project, Beltane Born. Not the same (or even similar to) as Wuthering Heights, but still great :)

If he keeps releasing more stuff, I might actually have to buy an external CD drive to rip his music instead of waiting till I visit my parents ;)

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