I mean, 20 years ago the mid-tier recording industry was completely destroyed, it never came back, and they try to distract you from this fact by the fact that the Top 40 1% still exists and so do starving cover bands on YouTube https://twitter.com/RickWayneWrites/status/1245016736451178498 …
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Honestly, yeah, I remember the 90s, the "price-fixing", paying $20 a CD just to listen to one song It was annoying, but people actually did do it, and that "wasted money" - that "economic rent" - was why many musicians with only okay popularity had middle class incomes
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It sucked for consumers, especially poor consumers But you know what, fuck consumers It's only a song to you, it's life and death for them
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And daring you to say to his face "Yeah but a lot more people got to listen to his songs, maybe he should've learned to adapt"
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This is why I hate the "reinvent yourself spiel" here in Puerto Rico. It is a backward acknowledgment that everything is broken but it is up to you to fix it by adapting to the broken system asshole has profited for decades. So they can keep profiting while we keep dying/leaving.
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