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And the artist earns significantly less as a consequence, hence the emphasis placed (from literally every artist I’ve spoken to or heard o speak on it) “you don
by gnarlouse 3y ago
And the artist earns significantly less as a consequence, hence the emphasis placed (from literally every artist I’ve spoken to or heard o speak on it) “you don’t make money from album sales, you hardly break even from touring, you basically need a side-business now”
Or maybe it’s actually a net healthy thing—that is, demanding musical artists be lifelong paupers of the most fundamental degree—because music is an unproductive venture and starving artists make objectively better art.
- 0thgen 3y agoThat's an empirical question: do small independent artists make more or less via the streaming model than they do via "buy CDs in shops" model? I don't know the answer, but I'm a bit skeptical of the idea that small artists were making a better living via local CD shops (with limited inventory and zero economic incentive to push smaller, unknown artists).