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For those who don't tour or sell stuff this is peanuts. Not all musicians want to perform live, some can't even due to the nature of the music... or COVID.
by tiborsaas 5y ago
For those who don't tour or sell stuff this is peanuts. Not all musicians want to perform live, some can't even due to the nature of the music... or COVID.
- thatswrong0 5y agoBut this is just supply and demand in action - at any given moment there is a ton of high quality music to listen to in pretty much any style you can think of at your finger tips. Listening to a live performance, on the other hand, is far more rare than an individual stream, and that scarcity results in actual value. Same with merch. I'm saying this as a musician.. why should I feel entitled to $X per stream when there is so much good music out there to stream? Just because I put a lot of effort into some thing doesn't mean I'm entitled to a living wage from it. There are way, way too many people who do something extremely similar to feel entitled to that.