What I claim is, I think, fairly easily observable -- traditional publishing has been slowly caving in and leaving a ton of creative people out of work And the Internet revolution we were promised would replace it makes it really, really hard to make money
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The latter model is objectively "worse for fans" because you have to pay more money, but that also makes it better for creators Once you hit a certain ceiling it is, I hate to say, a zero sum game
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Like shit "selling merch" or whatever isn't new In the old days, if you liked the band you had to buy the album first just to hear the music, then you ALSO bought the merch Removing the first step is objectively taking money away from the band
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And it's only people who benefit from the old system who want to keep it. It's a broken system that doesn't work. And other artists have coped with the change.
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