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Can you elaborate on what makes it a good fit? I'm curious what your thought is.

I would have, at face value, considered the acquisition a bit odd given Epic's primary product.

It's boilerplate stuff, but my only experience with Bandcamp is buying a couple FLAC quality albums from artists that are too small to be signed onto a structured record label, or don't want to have additional middlemen between them and their fans. Was thinking something akin to Patreon with a well-functioning desktop app that goes beyond only having music offerings, like live shows or additional interviews with the band. Though other comments saying artists may need to have an exclusivity agreement in place to get this revenue sharing arrangement may be valid, the overhead of having to go through the traditional record label/publisher model is essentially rent seeking with providing no additional value.

Artists can live stream on Bandcamp now: https://blog.bandcamp.com/2022/01/27/bandcamp-live-is-now-op...

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