My father and his brother's entire business model in the 90s and 2000s was mass producing Karaoke for America while giving labels the finger. He saw digital dow

My father and his brother's entire business model in the 90s and 2000s was mass producing Karaoke for America while giving labels the finger. He saw digital downloads and streaming coming like a freight train from the future. I worked at my colleges radio station with labels to examine their newest stuff and add/omit it to our rotation for the metal segments. Finally, I have a friend I met in college who is in a talented metal band (Aether Realm) basically forging their own way. In all these interactions, the sense I have gotten from everyone from labels to artists to derivative works is always fundamentally a numbers game "how much and how many people will people really pay" and smoothening out statistical noise in income streams. The end result is truly if you care for the music and the art, buy the merchandise directly from the artist. Go to the local concerts. Help reduce the variance in the artist's income stream. Show them that despite not having a big label, they can succeed. Once I realized I had this kind of power to my favorite metal artists, it was nice to give back.