Bandcamp is an online music store, as well as a platform for artist promotion, that caters mainly to independent artists. Artists on Bandcamp have a customizable microsite with the albums they upload. All tracks can be played for free on the website and some artists offer free music downloads. Bandcamp takes a 15% cut of sales made from their website (in addition to payment processing fees), which drops to 10% after selling more than $5000 worth. Bandcamp is also free to join.
Bandcamp gained much attention in July 2010 when Amanda Palmer, Low Places and Bedhed gave up their record labels and started selling albums on Bandcamp, using Twitter for promotion.
Bandcamp saw a rise in popularity in 2011 when several indie game developers published their game soundtracks on Bandcamp, including the creators of Bastion, Sanctum, Machinarium, Terraria, Plants vs. Zombies, Limbo, Super Meat Boy and Minecraft.
"Well I'm battered down
I'm burnt out like a half of a cigarette
And I'm passed out on the floor
Thinking am I happy yet?
I'm filmed in black in white
But you remember me in colors
Singing songs about my heartache
And my jealousy of others..
It's hard to explain it
And hard to contain it
It's hard to explain how it feels
'Til there's someone to cry about
Someone to fight it out
Someone to say..you're the reason they breathe
'til there's someone you're crazed about
The one you can't live without
Someone to say...
You're the reason they breathe..
I'm feeling kind of lonely
'Cause I lost my train of thought
Tried to run away from thinking
But it only got me caught
I'm as open as a rose
When summers air can spare no rain
In this drought I'm almost dead
And in this sun I'm rather plain
Does it help you to cling to
The shell you've turned into?
I wish you the best and the worst"
'Til there's someone to cry about
Someone to fight it out
Someone to say..you're the reason they breathe
'til there's someone you're crazed about
The one you can't live without
Someone to say...
You're the reason they breathe..
we used to have it as good as it gets
the butterflied stomachs and romance cassettes
we'd fall for each other all over again
each kiss was the first of it's kind we'd preted
we started with nothing and worked it from scratch
we felt high and broke down now there's no turning back
just so you know i am sorry
just so you know im okay
not that you care but i worry
just so you...
i used to love you, you used to love me
i loved how you loved to play mind games to see
if trust was an option or only a thought
my heart frozen fresh in this ink that we bought
we started with caring and ended with spite
through truth or the daring i never chose right
just so you know i am sorry
just so you know im okay
not that you care but i worry
just so you...
i find it amazing, hard working hellraising trying to find strenghth just for L.O.V.E
it's something misleading the bleeding and pleading for me
we used to have it as good as it gets
the butterflied stomachs and romance cassettes
we'd fall for each other all over again
each kiss was the first of it's kind we'd preted
just so you know i am sorry
just so you know im okay
not that you care but i worry
just so you...
i guess you should know i've had better
i guess yo should know i've moved on
it's not that you cared or you ever
just so you know