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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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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Got the numbers on that? I tried to find the data on how many people in the 90s were living off music and writing, average income etc, but couldn't find much of anything unfortunately.
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This is his post that went viral in 2012http://thetrichordist.wordpress.com/2012/06/18/letter-to-emily-white-at-npr-all-songs-considered/ …
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