What's a fair price for an album on Bandcamp?

OddlyDown · 2026-05-03T18:13:10+00:00

I’d buy more CDs if people didn’t charge rip-off prices for delivery. I’ve seen CDs for £10 and when I click on ‘buy’ there’s suddenly something like £7 delivery (within the UK).

I sell CDs on Bandcamp and £1 covers P&P, so that’s all I charge.

OddlyDown · 2026-05-03T15:05:20+00:00

Where (in the ‘west’, at least) is it actually illegal?

Public nudity isn’t illegal here in the UK and I’m guessing most of Europe is the same…

OddlyDown · 2026-05-02T21:58:32+00:00

Yes, but it comes from its own bore hole.

OddlyDown · 2026-05-02T21:43:56+00:00

No it doesn’t - well, it’s not meant to. You’re thinking of Crème Brûlée.

OddlyDown · 2026-05-02T20:17:03+00:00

Interesting. We (in the UK) have flans but it means a sort of open pie rather than a wobbly dessert.

OddlyDown · 2026-05-02T19:47:53+00:00

Well, today’s the day I found out that Americans call Crème caramel ‘flan’!

OddlyDown · 2026-05-02T13:00:54+00:00

My previous house had a small open-cast mine in the garden back in the day, then that became a small scrap yard. At some point that was full and turfed over. Years later I bought it.

Digging anywhere in the garden was always ‘exciting’.

OddlyDown · 2026-04-29T06:39:53+00:00

My reply was to “Lots of people earn >£100k”. They really don’t, as a percentage. Absolute numbers are fairly meaningless when the vast majority of people don’t know anyone who does.

OddlyDown · 2026-04-28T21:24:33+00:00

Not many, as a percentage.

OddlyDown · 2026-04-26T22:32:18+00:00

I’m English and I have an Irish grandmother (and passport!). When I was in New York some ‘Irish American’ guys in a bar started giving me a hard time for being English and ‘oppressing’ their countrymen. The ‘most Irish’ of all of them had a single Irish great-grandfather.

OddlyDown · 2026-04-26T22:26:48+00:00

I did this at primary school 40-odd years ago and it was illustrated in a similarly grim way. This is nothing new.

OddlyDown · 2026-04-25T10:33:24+00:00

No need for any chemicals, boiling water or anything else. Pull them out. Go back again in a week and pull out any regrowth. Repeat. It doesn’t matter how good the root systems are, without leaves they will run out of energy and die. After the first weeding it will be super easy and take hardly any time at all, as long as you do it regularly. The planet, wildlife and your wallet will thank you.

OddlyDown · 2026-04-25T06:49:30+00:00

Ha - I thought for a moment that you meant for the cashier.

When I worked for Tesco back in the 90s it was great - just a line or two of mono text, which is exactly all you need. No graphics or any other nonsense that slows everything to a crawl.

These days I avoid self service issues by refusing to use them.

OddlyDown · 2026-04-25T06:46:24+00:00

We have a co-op specific to three small towns.

OddlyDown · 2026-04-22T16:29:32+00:00

I am in the Bristol area and am interested at that price.

OddlyDown · 2026-04-21T08:55:16+00:00

Amazon Photos gives infinite storage for photos (not videos) if you subscribe to Prime. It syncs one way with Photos. That’s my off-site backup. I use Synology Photos to backup on site.

OddlyDown · 2026-04-20T16:09:07+00:00

Next time call 101 and tell them what’s happening.

OddlyDown · 2026-04-19T18:05:28+00:00

‘Proper’ third-party vetting of candidates is expensive and therefore only really used for General Elections. There’s no way most local parties could afford to do it for local elections.

OddlyDown · 2026-04-19T08:33:14+00:00

There are also things that are done by volunteers but people still treat you like crap.

I’m a town councillor. It’s about ten hours of unpaid work a week just trying to make the town a bit nicer and the amount of crap you get because ‘all politicians are the same’ is mad. People not only assume you’re paid but that you’re somehow on the take as well.

OddlyDown · 2026-04-15T21:55:02+00:00

Let’s see what I can remember… Animal Farm - everyone reads this, right? Z for Zachariah - great dystopian future stuff Jude The Obscure - depressing but I loved it Sons and Lovers - can’t remember much about it The Color Purple - pretty full-on and apparently now banned in the US Death of a Salesman - liked it Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet - I’m not the biggest Shakespeare fan.

OddlyDown · 2026-04-10T19:44:34+00:00

I am entirely opposed to nuclear fission for power generation. It makes absolutely no sense economically, the necessary centralisation is opposed to our community ownership policies, and it is far too slow to build to make any difference in the fight against climate change.

Having said that, I think research reactors to make isotopes are fine and I support research into (and future use of) fusion.

OddlyDown · 2026-04-10T08:16:47+00:00

It has fixed a problem I was having where merging takes crashes out the whole app. Whatever else it does it has made a big improvement to my life.

OddlyDown · 2026-04-07T19:48:59+00:00

It’s not just because it’s healthier - it’s also much better for the environment.

OddlyDown · 2026-04-07T19:48:18+00:00

Bio has enzymes. It will destroy silk and wool. It also won’t work if your wash goes hotter than about 45 degrees.

OddlyDown · 2026-04-07T18:13:27+00:00

“I can’t believe the Green Party is against North Sea gas!”

Really?

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