whatever will the millionaires do???

22 points

Have friend. Is artist. Headline act in front of +40K. Goes all over world doing festivals and stuff. Steals music. Encourages me to steal music. Laughs when I steal his music

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If I play one song, from one artist, once a day, for a year, the artist earns about $2 from me. BFD lol

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it gets more interesting if you calculate how much of the percentage of a user’s subscription goes to spotify, how much goes to labels and how much ends up in the artists themselves.

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Well, luckily for them they can have more than one listener

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Spotify replacing songs in my library without warning basically radicalized me to start using modded apps and buy my favorite artists on bandcamp

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I’m moving back to buy physical media… But it’s sad that isn’t feasible to buy the entire library that I have on platforms. That would be an whole life effort decades ago, now it’s even harder since the availability for physical media decrease so much.

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Direct donations maybe?

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you’re taking pride in bootlegging content?

Why are people such massive dorks now when it comes to piracy, fuck off

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I could try being the devil’s advocate and argue a point or two, but I won’t because I’d be overall a worse person without piracy lol

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for leaving reddit pedantry behind.

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You know, as much as I’m fine with setting sail to find video content that’s hidden behind streaming subscriptions, I’m actually ok with paying £15 a month for Apple Music / Spotify, et al…

I mean, I’d say there’s 99% similarity between the libraries of the big two streamers, so it’s not like you have to sub to both to get all the music you want. I can listen to the same hardcore bands across most of them, and that’s fine. The problem I have is that there’s a bunch of shows on Netflix, another bunch on D+, more on Prime, and so on, and so on. So we’re made to feel that, in order to keep up with cultural discourse, we have to spend out £70+ a month on half a dozen different services.

And nah, fuck that.

All that said, I do download some music, because I want FLACs to convert to 320 aac so I can load on to the iPod I like to use.

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