Being a millennial I remember conversations about what a scam record label deals were to artists because they’d only give bands a few dollars for each CD sold. This is of course old news to gen X and older who had known earlier that record deals were a scam usually heavily slanted in favour of the label.
Then Spotify came out and it was reported that it gave ~$0.003-0.007 per stream to labels (then artists would get a smaller cut of that), and I dismissed it as a hilariously terrible deal.
But I was wrong and most people seemed very happy to give up their mp3 & physical collections so they could stream a wider library, I guess it’s unrealistic to expect most people to choose ethics over convenience. There does seem to be a swing back to rolling your own micro server hosting something like Navidrome or Plex and streaming your own music, which is great to see.
P.s. I’m a KGatLW fan and have a couple albums on Bandcamp, this is gonna make me buy a couple more in support. Great group of people
Being a millennial I remember conversations about what a scam record label deals were to artists because they’d only give bands a few dollars for each CD sold. This is of course old news to gen X and older who had known earlier that record deals were a scam usually heavily slanted in favour of the label.
Then Spotify came out and it was reported that it gave ~$0.003-0.007 per stream to labels (then artists would get a smaller cut of that), and I dismissed it as a hilariously terrible deal.
But I was wrong and most people seemed very happy to give up their mp3 & physical collections so they could stream a wider library, I guess it’s unrealistic to expect most people to choose ethics over convenience. There does seem to be a swing back to rolling your own micro server hosting something like Navidrome or Plex and streaming your own music, which is great to see.
P.s. I’m a KGatLW fan and have a couple albums on Bandcamp, this is gonna make me buy a couple more in support. Great group of people
my favorite part of my home lab server is being able to listen to the music I own without guilt
i just wish it was easier for more people to do
That should be rightfully recognised as 21st century payola aka payola 2.0.
A few dollars per CD. I think it was less then that.
Preach, dude… I’m sadly guilty of this and need to reestablish a good local collection of music again like back in the iPod days.
How do you compare the value of a stream to the value of a CD though? You can listen to the CD repeatedly without paying again.