beard ひげ @beardalaxy@gameliberty.club

@eighthbell @sicp @Zergling_man if you want to support artists, buying CDs and streaming are about the same things. record labels will look at the numbers, mostly. the bands don't see the vast majority of the money from either of those, though, not directly at least. doing that will just go towards making sure they stay signed.

the best way to support bands monetarily is by going to their shows and buying merch at their shows. that costs a fuck ton of money though, of course. i only go to shows of bands i REALLY want to see because i'm going to be spending like $100. local and smaller shows are fun to go to, but it's usually harder to get someone to go with because they aren't as well known.

i'll buy music from indies i really like on bandcamp or whatever, because they actually see a lot more of that money. if anything, they maybe go through a distributor that takes 20% or whatever.

for everything else, i have a deezer subscription. it's great for finding new music and following releases, as well as being able to stream stuff where i don't have it downloaded. deezer has a pretty unique system for paying artists that i like. you can look it up if you want.

i use a program called murglar to download the high quality FLACs from deezer. it's super easy. i use MusicBee for my music player on PC and PowerAmp on Android.

the main reason i started downloading shit again instead of streaming is because in 2025 a bunch of streaming licenses ran out and fucked up my music library. there are also things like region locks and artists/labels randomly removing shit. like, sorry if you want to listen to king gizzard and you only have spotify. musicians can make great music but most of them are still pretty libtarded and record companies are gay.

@eighthbell never heard about soulseek, surprisingly. seems interesting.

wtf i just found out that mansionz made a new album 2 years ago, listening to it now.

@smugumin

@flux_the_cat I'd learn Spanish for her

@mischievoustomato damn that's like covering yourself with a blanket so the monster can't see you

@MuhSocialJustice vape pens probably

@syzygy why did I read this as furjob

@Groomschild @King_Noticer @LordMordred I like nyana

@Okymir where do you think they get all their ideas?

If you want people to stop hating you, telling them to stop hating you while you keep doing the same thing over and over again is definitely going to work.