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Buying music (singles or albums) was super expensive in 1999. It was unfair for listeners as well as artists. Napster suddenly made it 'free'. I remember thin

Buying music (singles or albums) was super expensive in 1999. It was unfair for listeners as well as artists. Napster suddenly made it 'free'. I remember thinking, if CD's were not so ridiculously expensive and i could pick the songs on it, i would just buy them instead of spending money on data traffic time/bandwidth. Today, we pay much less and the artists are still paid, while we can choose exactly what to listen to.

AlexandrB 2y ago
The "long tail" artists are paid a lot less. Even if you listen to Frog Eyes all day, every day most of your Spotify subscription is going to Taylor Swift.
relaxing 2y ago
> the artists are still paid No, no, no, no. Not at all compared to the glory days of the industry CD boom.