For what it's worth on my first reading I understood the part you're quoting to mean precisely that there's no scarcity of art, not in the digital sense but in

For what it's worth on my first reading I understood the part you're quoting to mean precisely that there's no scarcity of art, not in the digital sense but in the same sense you use in your final paragraph. And I'm not sure I'm convinced by what you're saying, I think people mostly pay for Taylor Swift because she has a brand with a lot of marketing and everything that comes with it, you hear her on the radio, on TV, then you're familiar with her work and style so you buy it to hear it again because it's convenient and music discovery is hard, the art is just the minimum requirement to enable the marketing. That's only my opinion as a consumer, I have no industry knowledge.