> The companies that buy up sites like Bandcamp are interested in nothing except ensuring the executives’ pockets get lined appropriately.

What about the people who sell sites like Bandcamp? It seems to me they want their pockets lined as well.

To me it points to something fundamentally unsustainable. If cycle of “people who love music/support the artists” create sites/publications/etc. and then invariably sell out to some larger corporate body who dilutes or destroys the operation - what is going wrong?