King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard Encourage Bandcamp Users to ‘Name Your Price’ For Digital Catalogue

After pulling their tunes from Spotify, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard are flipping the publication erstwhile again by inviting fans to download their catalog on Bandcamp astatine immoderate terms they choose.

The prolific Australian psych-rock outfit person tagged each their downloadable albums arsenic “name your price,” a generous promotion that has the hallmarks of Radiohead’s groundbreaking In Rainbows experimentation from 2007, erstwhile the British set invited fans to wage immoderate they wanted to download the then-new album, their archetypal extracurricular of the EMI machine.

King Gizz, arsenic they’re known successful their homeland, and with their loyal fans everywhere, has applied the pay-what-you-want connection to their sizeable catalogue, and fans person got into the tone of the exercise.

At the clip of penning the full apical 25 integer albums connected Bandcamp are from King Gizz.

The rockers are successful a giving mood, aft precocious pulled their euphony from Spotify, a protestation to CEO and co-founder Daniel Ek’s idiosyncratic concern successful subject AI.

“Hello friends… A PSA to those unaware,” work a connection connected the band’s later Instagram Story, posted successful precocious July. “Spotify CEO Daniel Ek invests millions successful AI subject drone technology… We conscionable removed our euphony from the platform… Can we enactment unit connected these Dr. Evil tech bros to bash better?… Join america connected different platform.”

They’ve done conscionable that.

King Gizz are nary mean signaling artists. At the clip of writing, their discography numbers 27 workplace albums, 3 EPs, and six unrecorded albums, a fig that could alteration immoderate time now.

In 2017, the Melbourne enactment promised, and delivered, 5 workplace albums successful a calendar year. Five years later, they did it again, by releasing 5 albums successful the calendar twelvemonth 2022.

If Radiohead’s honorable container conception is thing to spell by, consumers won’t excavation heavy for King Gizz downloads. According to a 2007 survey by Internet probe radical ComScore, which examined however consumers reacted to that antithetic integer merchandise strategy, 38% paid an mean of $6. The remainder paid nothing. The carnal merchandise was a accepted one, and a hit.

Since it was founded successful 2008, Bandcamp boasts much than $1.57 billion paid to artists utilizing the platform. Bandcamp downloads are disposable successful MP3, FLAC and more, and supporters get unlimited streaming via the escaped Bandcamp app.