By contrast, today at least, EVERY DOLLAR YOU SPEND goes into an artist's pocket (ok, we still pay payment processing fees, but it's like 50 cents). And even on a normal day, Bandcamp takes a *very* reasonable 15% of each sale.
Three sales today is equal, or better, to a YEAR'S worth of typical streaming revenue for the majority of artists out there...
And the bottom line is, if you don't support the art you like, it's going to stop being made.