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> I suspect that purchasing music files to own will seem increasingly strange and inconvenient to younger people, though. It'll be interesting to see what happ
by nordsieck 4y ago
> I suspect that purchasing music files to own will seem increasingly strange and inconvenient to younger people, though.
It'll be interesting to see what happens.
As a fan of blues, I've noticed that there are a lot of grey songs in my Spotify playlists. There's just no practical way to be able to listen to the music I want to hear besides owning it (Youtube is hit-or-miss as well).
For people who want to listen to pop, they're probably fine. But anything that's even a little niche is trouble. Or that's my experience, anyhow.
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- gumby 4y ago> For people who want to listen to pop, they're probably fine. But anything that's even a little niche is trouble. Or that's my experience, anyhow. O what happened to the idea of the “long tail”, eh?
- JasonFruit 4y agoI guess the idea is, why would you long tail when you can Pareto Principle?
- gumby 4y agoYeah, the theory of the long tail was that the marginal cost of that old, low volume stuff was nil. I guess the truth was that it didn’t scale.
- nordsieck 4y ago> I guess the idea is, why would you long tail when you can Pareto Principle? IMO, that's not a great point. The music is already made - that's the hard part. It just needs to be licensed. Maybe there are other channels that are more profitable than streaming, but I'm guessing that a lot of older/niche music is just locked away for no good reason. At a certain point, I have to imagine that most artists would prefer their music be listened to if they aren't going to make money either way.
- wj 4y agoCan you recommend some blues artists that I may not know about?
- wyclif 4y agoOh wow, there's just so many. Do you have Spotify? If so I can point you to some user-curated blues playlists that have a big variety.
- nordsieck 4y agoI got into blues via dancing, which has heavily influenced my tastes. In no particular order: * Will Wilde * Sugarray Rayford * Smokehouse * Etta James * Gordon Webster * The Blue Vipers of Brooklyn * Tin Pan * Asylum Street Spankers * Hugh Laurie * Legendary Rhythm and Blues Revue * Preservation Hall Jazz Band * The Marsalis Family * Katie Webster * John Lee Hooker * Keb Mo * Son House * Joe Bonamassa * ZZ Ward * Kevin Selfe * Allen Toussaint * Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown * Bill Withers * Nina Simone * Buddy Guy * Lightning Hopkins * Howlin' Wolf * Brother Yusef There's probably a whole lot more - these are just the ones that I can think of off the top of my head. You probably know a lot of them, but I didn't want to guess which ones you know, so I just wrote out a bunch of people I like.