Oddbean

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 $10 a month is fine to me. It’s the payout system that needs to change. If I’m a premium user and only listen to 1 band the entire month, that 1 band should get the $10 minus spotifys cut

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 Hmm I’m not so sure. In the 80s/90s that $10 would’ve bought that one record. You want to listen to another? You buy that as well. X that over a 1 year period, the average person would’ve spent way more… and that money was worth more too.

If artists got the significant part of that $10 it would help but it still wouldn’t be the same.

Musicians need to make music worth that streaming fee. One note should cover it.

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 Just to quote Jeff Booth, prices fall to the marginal cost of production. It’s much cheaper to produce an album today than the 80s. Any bedroom artist can put out a high quality track with minimal gear, granted they have the extra skills.

Also, when buying a $10 album, you’re paying for all the songs on the album, even if you only listen to a few. Streaming basically bypasses that, which cuts a significant amount of revenue from B-sides. 

I do think it’s much harder to be a middle class musician than before. Much more work and skill sets are required, along with fierce “competition”

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 Just to quote Jeff Booth, prices fall to the marginal cost of production. It’s much cheaper to produce an album today than the 80s. Any bedroom artist can put out a high quality track with minimal gear, granted they have the extra skills.

Also, when buying a $10 album, you’re paying for all the songs on the album, even if you only listen to a few. Streaming basically bypasses that, which cuts a significant amount of revenue from B-sides. 

I do think it’s much harder to be a middle class musician than before. Much more work and skill sets are required, along with fierce “competition” nostr.fmt.wiz.biz

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 Hmm if the cost of production is close to zero then the musical output should also decrease.

Single tone sine waves are all this market supports.

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 Hmm if the cost of production is close to zero then the musical output should also decrease.

Single tone sine waves are all this market supports. nostr.fmt.wiz.biz

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 Lmao  keep complaining man, that’ll get you so much further

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 Not complaining, telling you first hand how many in the industry are living.

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 To add on. What is not accounted for is TIME.

For example Dark Side If The Moon was made during a 6 month lock out for the whole of Abbey Road Studio 2. Lock out means the studio is available at all hours in that time. Essentially the band own that space.

Say those facilities now exist in a laptop (they don’t really). Then it still takes the musician TIME.

Ironically a big tune on that album was also labelled time.

For streaming revenue, the average musician should be submitting short test tones until the situation improves.

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 And if you’re Metallica these should be slightly longer bursts of white noise.

Oh hold on a second…