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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I used to *deliver* this spiel when I was in college and and I have to credit
@davidclowery's rants for turning me around on this The unspoken hidden conclusion of every "And then the industry adapted in the end" is "And everything is fine" when everything is NOT fine2 replies 1 retweet 38 likesShow this thread -
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@davidclowery is probably the biggest pro-copyright pro-RIAA activist online, I don't agree with everything that he says, but his passion is hard to argue with The fact that he successfully sued Spotify for hundreds of millions of dollars is badass)2 replies 0 retweets 24 likesShow this thread -
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
@davidclowery in 2014 was talking about a friend of his seeing his royalties plummet off a cliff after Napster and never come back, falling into a downward spiral and killing himself1 reply 0 retweets 25 likesShow this thread
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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Replying to @arthur_affect
Many things are both true, and insensitive to say to someone when their friend has committed suicide Arthur.
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