• echo64@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      Yes, I was alive in the time when artists could barely scrape by. Now, I’m alive in the time when artists can’t even do that.

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        11 months ago

        You live in the opposite world of all of us. Or are just very confidently incorrect…

        Before Spotify and the like the only artists that could make any money were hand selected by the record labels. Virtually all profits artists made were from merch sold at live shows, because the record labels took all the profits otherwise.

        Now, artists that are independent can make money and get listeners much more easily. This is directly thanks to Spotify and the like. However the record labels are still the ones stealing most of the profits for artists they sign and record.

        It is ONLY better for the artists now, despite it still sucking. You are blaming the improvement not the problem.

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          11 months ago

          Now, artists that are independent can make money and get listeners much more easily. This is directly thanks to Spotify and the like

          You need to speak to an independent artist sometime about how they make money so easily thanks to spotify. (Spoiler, they don’t. At all. And they can’t sell physical anymore because of spotify)