How to annoy your fans (and violate GDPR) in 3..2..1

So the other day I got an e-mail from a well-known UK EM-artist informing me about his new album and the fact that he got a new e-mail address. I bought from this artist on Bandcamp before and "followed" him (on Bandcamp!) to get updates.

This time however the e-mail didn't come from Bandcamp, but from his personal address. Something for which I never gave permission. Besides, the mail contained a hardly readable image of over 2MB. No text at all. So far so good you could say, apart from the fact that I never gave permission to mail me outside of the Bandcamp context. But to make things worse this mail had the e-mail address of 342(!!!) recipients in cc. All in the open. There goes your privacy!

The artist in question b.t.w. sent some e-mails in the past complaining how his rights got abused because somebody posted his music on Youtube. And that he would take legal action against this... Blimey! That's a good idea! So I filed a complaint at Bandcamp about this violation of GDPR.

I also mailed the artist to complain. And got no reply so far...

Of course I no longer follow this artist and won't buy his music anymore. Thanks, but no thanks.

Doesn't matter. And at least 340 people know it already.

What bothers me even more than that very ugly mistake he made, is the fact that I (and the other people on the list) haven't received any form of an apology from him. As for damage control that's the least you can and should do in situations like this.

Final update.

I recieved a nice and professional mail from Bancamp support informing me that they would contact the artist to "remind them of [their] privacy policy."

Shortly thereafter I received a very unprofessional - quite rude - email with all kinds of nonsense (even worse than his regular album notes). Basically telling me to f*ck off.

So that's it. No more music from this artist for me. And that's fine. There's already more music being released than I can listen to.

Fortunately, I'm not curious.
Ok.... I am. But anyway, this should not have happened!

By the way, oh the irony. I clicked the "Smilies" Button and a small window opened saying just "Hacking attempt!"
(would like to put a smily here, but well...)