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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Replying to @mssilverstein @arthur_affect
Like, I don't doubt they were wiped out, but I do wonder how close they always were to the edge.
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They were never further from the edge than in the 90s price-fixing era when everyone accepted you had to pay $20 a pop to own a song Artists honestly have always done best with some kind of price-fixing, that's why the Net Book Agreement was law in the UK for a century
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Note that when we're talking about other forms of trading money for labor "price-fixing" is called "unionizing" and doesn't carry nearly as much stigma
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