Rick Beato making clear what is happening on the music scene just as Cory Doctorow or Adam Conover talk about the Internet. Please remember to use frontends like Grayjay, NewPipe, Freetube or invidio.us to watch videos like these.

  • Got_Bent@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    To the consumption part, I have given more money directly to more artists via discovering them on Spotify then attending their shows and buying their merch than I ever even came close to back in the record buying days when record companies were screwing their artists anyway.

    I know quite a few bands personally who will never attain Taylor Swift levels of wealth, but they’ve got a business model of touring and merch down to a science that affords them a nice living doing what they love. This also includes tons of accessibility and fan interaction that very much didn’t use to be a thing.

    The savvy DIYers are sidestepping the entire record company schematic and using streaming services as effectively free marketing.