Back in the day we would pay $8.99 for an artist we liked. Not all that money went to the artist of course. But it was just one artist, that we wanted to support.

Now for that same price you can buy almost every song from almost every artist ever: even the ones you don’t support.

Ideally this could’ve been great, IF the majority of the money went to the artists. I wouldn’t mind. But the streaming services are giving literal crumbs to the artists from the insane profits they’re making. Slavery.

So what is the solution?

The solution is something that will never be accepted by the powers that be

I think the streaming model would have been amazing if there wasn’t this incessant and everpresent need to market yourself to turn over a profit and participate in this rat race

buy records on bandcamp & support artists on tour/merch

the internet is fake anyways

its time to do something drastic

I agree, Merch and ticket shows is a better way to support your favorite artists.

But I’m specifically talking about music: what can we do better?

NFTs come to mind, tbh I think something similar can be mainstream in the future. The fans and the artists all make money off the artist. Completely cut off the labels

the answer is simple lol
it’s in plain sight too but someone gon have to do it sooner or later

Obvi nothing atp especially not nfts

If an artist needs support they’ll make it easy whether it’s bandcamp/merch/shows/sharing them by word of mouth whatever feels appropriate for that artist do it all but the toothpaste is out of the tube with digital media streaming

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Still better than the streaming service which we have to buy 5+ because the movies are all scattered around

You have to understand that it didn't replace CDs... It replaced the literal robbery of piracy that was getting bigger and bigger while CDs were on their death march regardless.

Now Im not saying the streaming s*** is perfect and can't be changed to make it more artist friendly, but that was the situation it was born in.

You can still buy the album a lot of the time. Go for it

This is very true, the grass is much greener on this side.

Back in the day I would download everything from Limewire or torrents so

Indubitably..

And I understand that streaming is literally too good of an option, to be able to stream any song at any moment.

It’s just the way they flip the algorithms to benefit the artists they make the most money off of, and also the way they are robbing artists that’s the real issue when I really think about it

The 8.99 didnt go to the artist either lmao.
Artists got like 50 cents per album sold on a "good" contract

These corporations are eeeevil man

music was almost like that with the apple and tidal exclusives

i remember on like vh1 or something they had little blurbs in the corner during music videos and this one big tymers song was on and it said “most artists receive 30 cents per album sold while baby receives $4!” always stuck out to me as a child

i loved pop up videos

The alternative to streaming is piracy

They’ll be fine

Back in the day we would pay $8.99 for an artist we liked

Back in the day we downloaded everything for free

Also average person was not buying more than 12 albums a year

Stem player out now