What do you do to support the music you love?

Music
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Thought this little list was a great conversation starter

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I still buy it.

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What does ‘pre-save their music’ mean? Am I old now?

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Before an album or track comes out, you can save it with a clever link that pings you a reminder when it’s released. This sends signals to Spotify’s algorithm, which also augments their editorial decision, to potentially give the track more support.

It’s a very major label thing but you’ll probably now notice artists asking you to pre-save a stream from now on.

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Love how some fella has turned this into me being evil

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I think one thing that’s overlooked is that you could try and negatively impact rival bands of those you love. For example, I’m currently trying to plant members of War On Drugs at the Jan 6th protest in Washington to help out one of my favourite bands The Besnard Lakes, who might get more interest if The War On Drugs are cancelled

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i buy it lol

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I write ‘good to see other people still have musical taste!’ in YouTube comments for their songs

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If someone asks what music I like, or what gigs I’m going to, I respond with ‘you wouldn’t have heard of them’. Making the artist seem more enigmatic and cool and therefore boosting their value

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Whistle their tunes thus planting them in the public subconscious.

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Buy it.
Put on gigs.
Promote it.
Play it to other humans when I have them trapped (mostly car, occasionally dungeon)

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buy it
go to gigs

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Superliminal marketing

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Unfortunately the only physical music I buy nowadays are the CDs that are the entry for gigs at Rough Trade.

I do go to far more gigs than a man at my age should and buy merchandise that I rarely would wear.

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play it in Music League and force 40 or so other DiSers to listen to it

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Fucking hell that’s a bit much eh

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post about it on myspace and bebo.

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For what it’s worth the various threads that go on in DiS do promote so many bands. I haven’t met too many DiS-ers but know a lot of their music preferences and styles.

The number of bands I’ve got into and seen as a result of a recommendation here is huge. I probably spend a few hundred quid a year on gig tickets and then merchandise as a direct result of DiS band recommendations.

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This is pretty much exactly how I first heard Wave Pictures. Someone on the boards (may even have been your good self) bigging up And Now You Are Pregnant.

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And by DiS existing, does it help you find artists to love, as well as records and tickets to buy?

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