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U got questions but do u have a f***ing epipen

without streaming I would just go back to pirating music lol I ain’t paying for every album.

I do go to concerts, buy merch or physicals if I really like the project.

I'm not paying $2.97 for a Migos x Christmas song mashup

Idk to me it’s like you missed a movie in theaters and had to rent it or wait for it to come out free on streamers. We could go the 15-30 second preview route like iTunes went, we could have in-app radio stations where you could tune in and discover new music and then choose to purchase it. And this is all chosen by the artist/label obv. In the beginning of your music career you would probably opt to just let your music be available to everyone right away and just collect your crumb royalties in the name of exposure.

But I think for a lot of artists with established fanbases, this could serve as a nice middle ground.

Your loss, buddy!

even if its not the ideal approach, its worth having as a conversation. i think there’s always gonna be a loser in the equation, whether its the fans or the artists. the loser is never the labels, and that unfortunately, is the biggest problem of them all

There is literally no ethical way for this to work yo lol

End this paragraph with some selfish ass s*** lmaooooo

I just said it was for me big dawg

There are bands who strictly release physical music

Godspeed You! Black Emperor being the best example

Godspeed took their stuff off streaming but you can still buy digital copies on Bandcamp

Smashing Pumpkins releases a ton of music physical-only tho

The premise is right but people fail to bring up that pre-streaming era methods of consumption the artists or anyone else involved in the actual production process never got their “full value” and it’s been captured by labels, distributions, etc

the streaming era just further alienated both producers and consumers from the entire circulation of music while a “song” primary function becomes further removed from any artistic merit and just a commodity to generate $$$ for capitalists

This was true before hand but it’s much clearer to see in a time like now, where individual singles or “hits”, curated playlists, “deluxe” albums, bundles, etc and all the various marketing tactics artists and labels use to get ppl to stream more kind of just bring to the forefront how far removed from artistic merit being sole primary quality when making music is,

It’s instead just a digital unit needed to generate surplus value, whatever artistic quality it holds is second

The only way s*** really works is direct to consumer tbh.

We’re gonna see a small decrease bit by bit in artists dropping on DSPs ESPECIALLY as the cost of living continues to increase, cause this s*** is not sustainable lol

Yeah but Bandcamp they take full profit from

I see your point though, grey area because you can still 'stream' it

the concept of a migos Xmas carol mashup

what does the average consumer care if an artists work is devalued

Lets be real tho half of those 20+ episodes were pure filler dogshit

Finding an api key and downloading as many albums as you want without being limited by p2p transfer speeds >

If artists cant earn a living wage then the music the average consumer consumes is gonna get a lot s***ter

I dont think you are an outlier at all. People havent listened to music as much they do today. This site is too hard against streaming imo. Lots of artists are making a good living because of streaming and people are now going to their shows and bookings across the country/globe whereas before they wouldnt even know the artist existed outside of some poeple in their hometown

Seeing a lot of variety on my IG stories for people’s Spotify wrapped and whatnot really made me be like

Survivorship bias man. It's not like streaming brought up the amount of wealth for artists. It just shifted it around to a new group of people. Plenty of artists are f***ed over despite being successful.