and why a marketing pro would have never called it 8/11
so being that ‘Bandcamp’ has had a singular meaning forever… I don’t think it fits the business model. I remember when it started it literally had to overcome this issue… and has done well since, but still , the name has that vibe.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but I don’t think Bandcamp are likely to think the same way as you.
Unless you want me to email them with the serious music bastards idea?
They might go for that…
serious music bastards would be too close to the truth about industry business… so no, but you never know, they just might care.
I seriously feel like that’s where the name comes from
I seriously do too, it’s funny trying to picture the face on the guy who came up with that, he had to be high when he or she did it?
Almost everyone I talk who isn’t a musician has never heard of bandcamp. Some have heard of Soundcloud.
They could just rebrand to BC, and that would do. Bandcamp could be in the legacy/history. And then add a streaming model, something different to all the other competition. Could blow up. But I like bandcamps current financial model. Wouldn’t want artists to become further undermined. But their offering does today feel sorta old school. The app is pretty hokey
I think this thread’s got to the point that you really need to start offering up some alternatives.
I think you’ve shown great prowess, I wouldn’t dare.
Literally my favourite word.
Prowess.
Ha!
if it were me, I’d prob go with something like MyRecords
but I haven’t given it too much thought, I just love Bandcamp but think the name is awkward
Sounds a bit too much like a filing cabinet
but when you add the musical context it becomes synonymous
what is Bandcamp synonymous with
Bands
RecordDome. Where your Dubstep meats TrapBeats and EDM.
Bandcamp is fine imho. It might have a certain meaning or connotation for probaply many people, but I don’t think the majority sees it that way.
If the name was so bad, they would have changed it I guess?
how many of your fav bands went to band camp
What I like in Bandcamp is that you buy and listen to albums. The good old way.
I love that.
An alternative name should go this way I guess…
Still, they are really focused on artists, snd in my opinion succeeded in offering a “refuge” (as in “camp”) to bands.
Names rather fits, when I think of it.
Ive never seen american pie.
Im not american.
Ive never been there.
The word bandcamp has zero cultural significance to me.
There are millions of people like me. Millions.
yeah what they do is class…
I dunno, but my wife played the flute at school and went to band camp and she’s awesome.
She assures me it was nothing like the Bandcamp depicted by Willow off of Buffy.
well in that case just so you know, there are band camps outside of America… and they are the same