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To me, it’s not a problem of access to music. The problem is more like the way in which convenience culture has shaped a specific idea of what music is and what its purpose is.
Liz Pelly • 40: All the things Spotify didn't want you to know but Liz Pelly found out
Second, creators are already exploited: Spotify is very much like the universal searchable information database for music, it just operates for profit rather than for artists, and rights-holders get a fraction of a cent per Spotify play, an amount that must itself split between the label, the producer, the artist, and the songwriter. The CEO of... See more
Nathan Robinson • The Truth Is Paywalled But The Lies Are Free ❧ Current Affairs
Private equity firms have poured billions of dollars into music, believing it to be a source of growing and reliable income. Investors spent $12 billion on music rights in just 2021 — more than in the entire decade before the pandemic.
Marc Hogan • Same Old Song: Private Equity Is Destroying Our Music Ecosystem

Amazon and Spotify offer a raw deal for artists, Adam M. Lowenstein writes.
In their new book, “Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We’ll Win Them Back,” the law professor Rebecca Giblin and the activist author Cory Doctorow portray creative markets such as... See more
instagram.comI wrote them a letter-song called “Please Drop Me” to the tune of “Moon River,” performed it live, and asked the fans to video and upload to YouTube (they obliged). The label ignored it.
Amanda Palmer • The Art of Asking: How I learned to stop worrying and let people help
the idea of your public library being what you turn to for universal music access seems so much more interesting than it being dictated by the major labels and streaming services, who are going to try to reduce the cost of content at every turn to shape what you hear.
Liz Pelly • 40: All the things Spotify didn't want you to know but Liz Pelly found out
