If you are paying a third party for access to the music rather the artist and sales are dramatically down while you have the music you are stealing.
We have vastly different and probably irreconcilable differences on what the definition of “stealing” is, but fair enough if that’s your position
What would call getting on a train and paying the conductor $1 to let you on when the ticket cost $50? This is what streaming companies do to artists.
Do you also understand that due to the tanking of sales you don't get to hear from new artists and that concerts are dramatically more expensive than they should be?
Also, regarding new artists and speaking only for myself, my most frequently listened to Spotify playlist is the curated Discover Weekly playlist that Spotify puts together based on my music tastes. The playlist is designed to showcase new and upcoming artists. I have found some great music on there that I wouldn’t have otherwise if the only way I could find new music was buying random albums for $14.99 or going to a local place that might have a band I like.
What would call getting on a train and paying the conductor $1 to let you on when the ticket cost $50? This is what streaming companies do to artists.
Do you also understand that due to the tanking of sales you don't get to hear from new artists and that concerts are dramatically more expensive than they should be?
It's not working for the non-superstar artists or songwriters. If songwriters can't make a living writing songs, they will have to make a living doing something else. There has been a tremendous talent drain due to the new paradigm. The next Smokey Robinson or Carole King or Kurt Cobain may end up doing SEO or running a restaurant rather than creating legendary music. Mediocrity is the price that will be paid due to the inability and unwillingness to support talent.
This should be an absolute golden era of music. The market is much bigger and easier to access. Recording is much cheaper. The base of genres and acceptance is greater than ever. The problem is the incentives to just make a long-term living have been reduced to historically low levels.
Also, regarding new artists and speaking only for myself, my most frequently listened to Spotify playlist is the curated Discover Weekly playlist that Spotify puts together based on my music tastes. The playlist is designed to showcase new and upcoming artists. I have found some great music on there that I wouldn’t have otherwise if the only way I could find new music was buying random albums for $14.99 or going to a local place that might have a band I like.
What “should” a concert cost?
What “should” an album cost?
What “should” a month of Spotify Premium cost?
Please indicate if your answers are based on facts or just your opinions.
It's not working for the non-superstar artists or songwriters. If songwriters can't make a living writing songs, they will have to make a living doing something else. There has been a tremendous talent drain due to the new paradigm. The next Smokey Robinson or Carole King or Kurt Cobain may end up doing SEO or running a restaurant rather than creating legendary music. Mediocrity is the price that will be paid due to the inability and unwillingness to support talent.
This should be an absolute golden era of music. The market is much bigger and easier to access. Recording is much cheaper. The base of genres and acceptance is greater than ever. The problem is the incentives to just make a long-term living have been reduced to historically low levels.
I disagree with this. Streaming services provide a platform for smaller up and coming and regional artist to get their music to a larger audience than ever before. Artist now are becoming able to generate a touring fan base without being reliant on getting a record deal, or relying on the radio.
Your just old dude.
Maybe you should READ what I post rather than being lazy and stupid. Since, you want to make it about my age. I am allowed to call you out.
If you READ what I posted, you'd see that I showed how the internet should have been used to break artists on their own and without a record company. But it's much easier to be lazy and shallow than to actually pay attention.
I mean I'm just saying that you're complaining about how artists get paid, but the consumers don't write the checks to the artists. Recording industry execs, largely boomers these days, are the ones who determine all this.
Yeah man, you are saying the internet "should" have been used in that way. When in reality that is exactly how it is working, right now.