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 …
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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Yeah, So this is the bit I want a proper source on. Like, where's the data on "professional musician" coming from for instance. Where's the details on why it's taking 10,000 albums sales to begin to go into the black? That kinda thing.pic.twitter.com/zZ5lyTh0Jr
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Like, you get that if the point is that maybe it *shouldn't* take 10 000 sales before an artist can begin to make a living, that it's not a terribly compelling argument that people are suffering under that system, yeah?
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