It’s frustrating to live in a world where streaming is the main way to consume music. I found this German band from Berlin called “Von Wegen Lisbeth” because of their son “Wenn du tantzt” which has great music and great text: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2JRghbgeYw
So I was thinking, it would be cool to buy the Album so I can listen to it. I normally buy and listen to albums not singles. But where do you buy it digitally? I don’t want a CD or Vinyl because I live in Korea and I will need to move and don’t want to deal with physical media.
I thought, in the past I found music on Bandcamp, so I went there and found https://vonwegenlisbeth.bandcamp.com but there they only sell their first album which doesn’t have the song on it.
On their website https://www.vonwegenlisbeth.de/ they link to a shop where you can seemingly buy all their albums: https://krasserstoff.com/vonwegenlisbeth#merchcat-vonwegenlisbeth-musik butonly on Vinyl and CD, not for download.
Then I thought perhaps I could just pirate it, but the band seems to be too small, they don’t show up on The Pirate bay.
I checked Spotify and all their albums are there, but I don’t want to pay a subscription every month.
Isn’t it weird that you can’t buy a digital copy of a bands music? Where do people buy music digital copies nowadays?
There are several reasons why I don’t want a physical CD:
I have no space for it
I don’t want to carry it when I move
It’s a lot of work to sell it
I need to pay shipment around the world to Korea
The production and shipment creates unnecessary CO2, so it’s even bad for the environment
I get that, but it does seem like you’re getting at the point of niche where you’ll either be finding a torrent of it online, or manually ripping the disc yourself.
You can always sell the disc or donate it, since you’d have backed up digital copies. Maybe you can better justify the downsides of shipping by allowing their catalogue to be available in your area, even if it’s only a single copy for someone else to have. You could also alleviate some of those problems if they have more than just the one album/song that you want, as you’d be getting a few albums shipped instead of just one.
However, I do think there is one avenue left to explore for you. Have you tried reaching out to them personally? You may be able to just get in contact with them via social media or e-mail, and they may just hook you up and get your situation sorted. In any case, if this doesn’t work out I would genuinely suggest oredering from their store and having it shipped, ripping it, and having it be available for someone else via donation/sale/local library, while not ideal, isn’t entirely wasteful either.