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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The thing that pulled me up short reading
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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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Don’t know if I’m pro RIAA. I’m pro songwriter performer. But thank you Arthur.
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