Music
Bandcamp will donate their profits today to the ACLU
by Luke Ottenhof
February 3, 2017
Support your favourite artists and donate to a good cause at the same time.
Bandcamp is dope. That’s pretty much an unequivocal fact right now. It was just reported that the platform paid out $200 million to their users last year, reasserting their status as a fair, reputable space for artists to share their work. As we noted a couple days ago, “the alternative, digital marketplace model offered by Bandcamp is almost certainly a better bet for your bottom line.”
But the streaming and downloading site isn’t through with being ethical industry leaders just yet. Bandcamp announced that this today, February 3rd, they’ll be donating 100% of their portion of profits to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), a group that just (semi-) successfully challenged Trump’s immigration ban in court. Donations have been pouring in to the organization, which is working to defend constitutional and legal rights infringed upon by the new administration, and Bandcamp has joined the fight by pledging all funds earned today will go to the ACLU.
While this applies only to Bandcamp’s funds (they obviously won’t be donating the artists’ share of profits to the ACLU), some artists have pledged to match the move and donate their profits from Friday, too:
So if you’re looking to pick up some music, new or old, do it today, and do it on Bandcamp. It’s one of the more legitimate cases of slacktivism you can do.
Seven of the records on our year-end list can be found on Bandcamp, so if you dug last year’s offerings by Andy Shauf, Jenny Hval, Bon Iver, PUP, Blank Banshee, Fews, or Astronoid, go load up your cart and wait ’till Friday to buy.
