We shouldn't mix apples and pears here - music streaming is a different beast. The marginal cost for DoorDash is the cost of a pizza. The marginal cost for a mu

We shouldn't mix apples and pears here - music streaming is a different beast. The marginal cost for DoorDash is the cost of a pizza. The marginal cost for a music stream is effectively $0.00 dollars. You could say that VC set the customer expectation for cheap music (although, Zune Music Pass was available a full decade before streaming took off) but even before streaming you could argue consumer expectation for music was pretty dang cheap. Music was free on the radio, albums where shared widely, music was copied and pirated rampantly. It's a stronger argument that streaming services convinced labels that that everyone could make more money if they started competing with piracy on cost and convenience.