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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 12 Jun 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @phyphor and

      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

      2 replies 1 retweet 13 likes
    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 12 Jun 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @phyphor and

      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

      2 replies 1 retweet 18 likes
    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 12 Jun 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @phyphor and

      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

      2 replies 1 retweet 12 likes
    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 12 Jun 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @phyphor and

      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

      2 replies 1 retweet 12 likes
    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 12 Jun 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @phyphor and

      It was the expense of being a fan It sucked, especially if you were poor, although you could get around the financial barrier to entry with a little effort (It's that price discrimination thing again -- bootlegs and mixtapes existed but they took effort to get)

      1 reply 1 retweet 8 likes
    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 12 Jun 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @phyphor and

      But, I mean, that money was keeping the industry alive All the bullshit albums you bought that weren't worth it and all the movies you went to see in theaters that weren't worth it and so on, that was people's paychecks

      2 replies 1 retweet 12 likes
    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 12 Jun 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @phyphor and

      Because the number of people who've heard of something is always so much higher than the people who really like it, at every level -- it's not people paying for music they *like* that keeps art afloat It's people paying for music they *don't like*

      1 reply 1 retweet 10 likes
    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 12 Jun 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @phyphor and

      That's what people openly say "God, can you believe back in the day we used to just go to some random shitty movie in theaters to have something to do Now I only go to see movies twice a year, and it's the big Marvel movies that I feel like you *have* to see"

      1 reply 1 retweet 16 likes
    9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 12 Jun 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @phyphor and

      I hate to put in these blunt and cynical terms but it's true Supporting music means supporting the bands you don't like It means an ecosystem where 100% of the people who just randomly check a band out subsidize their career for the 2% who become true fans

      2 replies 2 retweets 14 likes
    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 12 Jun 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @phyphor and

      If ONLY the true fans ever pay you anything -- 98% listen once, go "meh" and forget about you, 2% go "FUCK YEAH" and tip whatever they can afford -- you may have a more authentic and enthusiastic fandom but you end up poorer A *lot* poorer

      1 reply 1 retweet 11 likes
      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 12 Jun 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @phyphor and

      Now, yes, this was unsustainable most likely Consumers fucking hated it, they ended up actually winning a class-action suit over it Nobody liked paying the "regret purchase tax" to be "involved in fandom" But like most taxes, once it's gone the budget falls apart

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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 12 Jun 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @phyphor and

          The best, most realistic proposal I think exists for how to deal with this is to have an actual, literal tax Public funding for the arts, like the NEA and your local government's artistic grants But this *also* very unpopular -- more unpopular than old CD prices were

          4 replies 2 retweets 15 likes
        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 12 Jun 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @phyphor and

          I would love, love to live in a future socialist world where there's a big public mandate to subsidize artists and pay them a livable wage for work commissioned according to a democratic process I am really, really not holding my breath this will ever be more than a pittance

          2 replies 1 retweet 15 likes
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        2. Andrew Falcone‏ @AndyBOP78 12 Jun 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @phyphor and

          This is totally spot on. I'm not sure what people aren't getting. I'm always a late adapter to things, I've grudgingly got into streaming over the last couple years, and I do like it, from a consumer stand-point, but I don't use it in lieu of buying music, and I know 1/

          1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
        3. Andrew Falcone‏ @AndyBOP78 12 Jun 2020
          Replying to @AndyBOP78 @arthur_affect and

          That I'm totally in the minority on that, which sucks. Because, the irony is that consumers are killing the ability for there to actually be a "product" I think it's crass to call music that, but.. anyways, yes, this limits the market to a few massive acts, and yes these acts 2/

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