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It's possibly ( I won't generalize there so I disagree ) bland and diluted now, but this was not always so. The death of radio and the rise of the CD are always

• hbosch 11y ago
  >"Basements, bookstores and independent venues" dooms the practitioners to being hobbyists. Do you prescribe this theory to hacker culture as well?
  • ArkyBeagle 11y ago
    That's slightly different because hacker culture creates a public commons that practitioners can use to make money. It is not clear to what extent this actually happens. Perhaps EDM works like how hacker culture works. I just don't know much about that . But for more traditional musicians it seems harder to... monetize the work. But this was probably always true - it was not uncommon for touring musicians in the radio era before TV to take on sponsors. The span in which people were sustained mainly by record sales was pretty brief.