Buyer Beware!

On his Bandcamp page the artist Fryderyk Jona is offering several of his albums as "name your price" Digital Albums.

What you get, however, are just samples! Not the full albums!

Assuming that when an artist offers a paid (even though it's "name your price") download option, (s)he offers the full album. Not just a bunch of 1-minute samples.

I contacted the artist and asked for a refund. But thought it wouldn't hurt to warn here for this scam too.

Will update if and when I receive a reply.

Personally, I can't quite warm up to those "name your price" downloads -- okay, I also have them in my catalogue but some people obviously don't understand that a donation of 50 Cents (for 90 minutes of music) won't end up in the pockets of the artist but only in the pockets of Bandcamp and Paypal. Rather spare yourself the money and the artist the humiliation, I'd say.

As for Mr. Jona, well... can't comment on this as I can't quite figure out the idea behind his NYP download.

Just thought I'd point this out.

Stephen

As far as I remember, Fryderyk had pointed it out in the info texts that the download(s) only contains samples. He had this "CD only" philosophy from start and for as long as he posted about it in social networks, he never made a secret out of it.

And maybe You don't realise that, but he basically disappeared from the scene and stopped releasing music in 2016, that's six years by now. Unless he's using some artist / project name since that I don't know about, but I met him two years ago for the last time (he lives - or lived - in a neighbouring village), and he told me that he had not recorded any music or touched his synths for a long time then...

Of course, it might have been wiser to just switch them to "free" on BC.
On the other hand, I guess he saw it as an opportunity for fans to support him without necessarily having to purchase a CD.

Like the "buy me a coffee" button on some blogs etc.

He was still rather new to the scene and to releasing music, and perhaps more naive or unexperienced than greedy.

But much more so - at least in my book - he was one hell of an EM artist, very, very gifted...

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I never intended to do that.
Actually I find Your frustration understandable...



From the way BC is designed, actually not - if a track (even if it's just a sample) is streamable, it also is - or has to be - automatically available in some way. Unless, perhaps, you have the "pro" version (I don't, so I can't tell...).



Interesting. Which one...? I didn't notice yet.



Well, everyone is entitled to his or her own opinion.

"...synth-fiddling á la Schulze with some improvised synth-saxophone..."

That's a fairly correct description in a way (except, of course, that it's real saxophone - Fryderyk has studied clarinet and saxophone, plays these instruments as a professional in orchestras and is also a teacher...).

Obviously, as a Schulze fan, I enjoy this type of music much more than Bert...

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