Screw labels and Spotify but go support artists and actually buy stuff.
This is the way.
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sucricdrawkcab@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Piracy creates an endless loop of artists taking advances and eventually losing royalties. That’s just what I’ve seen growing up in the music /film/ TV industry and briefly working in both. Screw labels and Spotify but go support artists and actually buy stuff.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Seems like advances exited long before piracy was a significant thing. Though I’m sure piracy does contribute to the imbalance like you describe.
I don’t mind paying artists for work that I like. Hell, I’ve bought much of my collection 3 times now: LP, cassette, CD. I never bought MP3s - just ripped them myself. All my CDs are in storage, which is dark, cool, and dry.
I’m pretty sure the distributors kept most of that money.
And that’s where the bulk of the problem lies: the power brokers that have always tried to control production and distribution.
And that goes back a long way. I know I’m being repetitive, but Payola has been around a long time, and rather indicative of the state of media production. It’s not like these ideas left just because someone got busted… They just learned new ways to accomplish the same goals of controlling the media marketplace without getting caught.
metaStatic@kbin.social 4 months ago
Artists have never made much of sales anyway. Go to shows.
“It’s my understanding that I had over 80 million streams on Spotify this year, So, if I’m doing the math right that means I earned $12. Enough to get myself a nice sandwich at a restaurant. So, from the bottom of my heart, thanks for your support, and thanks for the sandwich.” - Weird Al
MonsiuerPatEBrown@reddthat.com 4 months ago
buy swag from their web presence if you are old and your ears can’t do live shows no more.
soundsyndicate@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
Noise attenuating earbuds are a game changer, haven’t gone home with ringing ears since I started using them.
ShepherdPie@midwest.social 4 months ago
Those are called earplugs.
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 4 months ago
Ticketmaster has kicked in the doors of the chat, and secured every exit with burly goons.
ShepherdPie@midwest.social 4 months ago
Fucking dirtbags. They were recently forced to lump all their fees into the ticket price so their new tactic is to tack on fake taxes when purchasing tickets. I recently bought some for a festival through a ticketmaster subsidiary (to a venue owned by ticketmaster) and they charged me $33 in taxes on the purchase. The thing is, I live in Oregon where we don’t have any sales tax. I wrote both them and the promoter asking about it and they gave me some bullshit excuse about them being “state and local taxes” (venue is in rural Washington) even though that’s not how it works when it comes to purchases nor are there any local taxes in that area. The rate they charged me doesn’t even match the WA sales tax rate.
Trollception@lemmy.world 4 months ago
This is still making them a significant amount of money regardless of Ticketmaster.
sucricdrawkcab@lemmy.world 4 months ago
No they don’t. I don’t have a problem with let me listen to this to see if I should buy it. That’s totally understandable. People who just do it to get everything free is what I have a problem with. If you really like the work find a way to support them because those numbers open doors to bigger opportunities.
Totally agree on the show’s and I’ve seen some big name artists at small shows randomly. Also some really good merchandise.