In exchange for cancelling my Spotify a long time ago, I try and buy about one-two (?) albums a month on Bandcamp.
I do download a lot of music off YouTube, though. I used to buy merch and go to shows a lot, but I don’t make nearly enough as a grad student to justify that anymore. I also used to live a lot closer to a great music scene and venues to where that was super convenient for me, and I never paid more than $30-40 for a show. Not the case anymore.
I will say, I don’t really draw a distinction between major labels and indie labels for any of this. Often major label records are not on Bandcamp so I tend to either not listen to them or just play them off YouTube, really. I wouldn’t go out of way to buy merch or vinyl for them, maybe CDs if I can find them for cheap enough. It really is just a financial thing of, “is it affordable for me to support this properly”, indie or not.
Not much this morning. Just on my laptop with a coffee next to me downtown. For this afternoon though, probably just getting back into language learning to keep my brain active.
This evening though, gonna do a run by the lake shore. I’m also gonna message a bunch of friends I haven’t talked to in a long time, because I have been pretty bad at reaching out and hanging out with people this year.