(@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)
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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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Replying to @arthur_affect
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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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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He's talking about indie artists, not people signed to labels There's no greedy fatcat middleman, that's how much it costs to make an album
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It wouldn't take that many sales to make a living if each copy cost a lot more Or you could make each album cost less and hope to make it up on volume But THAT'S HOW MUCH IT COSTS TO MAKE
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And this is a big big problem with Kickstarter and the like, that people get "sticker shock" when they look at the goals "You want 75 THOUSAND DOLLARS just to make this little thing?" Yes, because for six months to a year this will be multiple people's jobs
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Or it could... Not? That is *so much* fucking money, where are you getting 75 thousand from? That's three times what an acquaintances band just spend on their album, including music videos and art?
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That's not a number for an album specifically, I'm talking generally about Kickstarter sticker shock and people yelling about goals being too high
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I mean yeah, I'd be pretty shocked at that sticker price too? (And that's *Australian* dollars) My point remains that if the system required 10000 album sales to no longer be in the hole, then the systems haunted, grab your guns
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