I'm aware. It's why, when I'm working, I support those artists and creators who make content I like. But I'm also not sure what point you're trying to make. Most people are doing badly right now, but that's a whole other problem.
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Like yeah if you look at it from a purely consumer POV it "sucked" and you were always getting "ripped off", but you had no choice As you say, then, as now, people still paid for stuff and people still made a living It's just the greater burden was shifted onto the consumer
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Like that's the sense you get, anecdotally, when you talk to fans about the '90s and before Being into music was a constant tax, on your paycheck Back in the day you had to spend so much more just to keep up with shit Buying all these albums you listened to once and hated
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In the old days music was played *on the radio*. You could hear music there before buying it. Or you could listen to music in a shop before buying it. I do remember this from not that long ago.
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Radio stations were controversial when they first appeared, and the mechanical license negotiated for their existence was a hard-fought legal battle And listening to music in the record store was fairly inconvenient and annoying and *also* a hard-fought legal battle
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