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33 Nov 25, 2012 1:33 am

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TSSBAY01

http://plentyofswords.blogspot.com/
http://pornotrond.blogspot.com/
http://mutant-sounds.blogspot.com/
http://wefuckinglovemusic.blogspot.com/

here are examples of blogs that i feel are well written and are also beneficial for the artists. blogs should be informative in terms of the history of the artist, other projects, area they're from, that kind of thing. sadly abptbap doesnt have a ton of information about the artists across all of the blog entries. it really needs to be more thought out if you want people to get the most out of it or use it. it has good things going for it, but i think it's important to look at other blogs as much as possible to see the differences between whats here and what makes a sticky blog. try and make a shift to making it a bit more informative as well as working with the artists themselves. dont change the names of the releases to leetspeak on your mediafire links so that if people download it and listen to it later they have a hard time figuring out what it is that they downloaded. these are simple things to change so that it can be more of a success.

34 Nov 25, 2012 2:30 am

Wizwars

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I open the blog and literally the first thing I see is my "entire" discography posted (this isn't actually true but I'm glad that it's becoming increasingly less common to find people who know about the 13 or so EPs I put out before "Game Boy Rock") plus a nice, flattering, basic description of what I do.

I'm completely fine with it. Believe me, I could use the money from people "paying what they want" on my Bandcamp. I don't work, my wife and I just had a kid, boo fuckin' hoo etc. But I download so much mainstream (and some obscure stuff like 70s library music vinyl rips) stuff from these type of blogs that I'd be a mega hypocrite to ever complain. I'm stoked that people give enough of a fuck about my existence that they'd want to share / download my music.

35 Nov 25, 2012 2:58 am

egr

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@Wizwars - right after i posted my first comment i actually went to the site and saw that, also has shitbird, comptroller, and chad's stuff. All of that's free so no biggie. HOWEVER, it does dodge the "pay what you want" on Bandcamp. Not all warm and fuzzy about that. Why have the mediafire dl's at all when you could just link to the less annoying and probably more efficient BC page?

I've been browsing the blog and I actually really like the content and will check out a lot of the stuff. This is exactly the type of blog that Datathrash grew out of back when it was just a Tumblr account. I understand the amount of time that goes into searching for good hardcore chip and electronic stuff not to mention straight up deathcore and metal.

That said, until the issue of posting non-free albums for free download is taken care of I won't be recommending or linking to the blog. I've done my share of pirating but I'm over it now and won't be supporting it.

Last edited by egr (Nov 25, 2012 2:59 am)

36 Nov 25, 2012 2:58 am

fuxter

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i wanna hug everybody in this thread

37 Nov 25, 2012 4:30 am

SKGB

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Godzilladelph

38 Nov 25, 2012 2:40 pm

thebitman

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I'm a bit bummed that they have links to my old music and not my new stuff.

Maybe that's a good thing, setting expectations low and whatnot...

This blog looks awful and the writeups are each their own special pieces of English gobbletygook. It IS public exposure, but it could be done better without the sketchy downloads practice and lack of effort to do more than post links.