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Once upon a time twenty-plus years ago, people spent $100 a week on music, books, and magazines, directly supporting the creative cultures they cared about.

Today, people rent access to infinite creative work for $15 a month, with little of that money going to the creators of the works themselves.

Yancey Strickler • Reinventing the record

In my debut for 'The Atlantic,’ I wrote about a subject near and dear to my heart: what the loss of cultural listings portends for artists, audiences, institutions, and journalists. The listings—from Time Out to the New Yorker to The NY Times—were, in many ways, my finishing school. I grew to understand the community I was a part of through those l... See more

Gabriel Kahane substack.com

“Unpacking My Library,”

Kyle Chayka • Filterworld

Non-Fungible Taylor Swift – Stratechery by Ben Thompson

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Therefore, I have decided to listen to Pablo Honey from now on with the ears of my sixteen-year-old self. I will not judge it via the lens of subsequent Radiohead albums—I am instead tricking my brain into perceiving it as the only Radiohead music that I have ever heard. Because lying to yourself in order to once again enjoy albums you used to love

Steven Hyden • This Isn't Happening

Spotify for Readers: How Tech Is Inventing Better Ways to Read the Internet

David Pierce protocol.com

George Packer in 2014, in a New Yorker piece detailing Amazon’s takeover of the book industry. With this data,

Jia Tolentino • Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

Now I think we have newsletters, which is a relatively unmediated form of consuming someone’s stuff. And I feel like that’s right now, at least, where I follow the weirdest voices or get the complicated ideas to the point that sometimes they’re too complicated. I’m not reading your 8,000-word Substack on why you’re moving to Portugal or whatever.

‘The Ezra Klein Show’ • Opinion | How to Discover Your Own Taste - The New York Times

In place of the human gatekeepers and curators of culture, the editors and DJs, we now have a set of algorithmic gatekeepers.