Yes I'm an artist and ok you're right the only way possible to ever sell any tickets is through ticketmaster let's give them all our money forever they win yup

Not reading all that I am at work lol

Maybe because the NBA has a contract with ticketmaster where the NBA itself gets a percentage not just the team and maybe because they put the whole season up for you to be able to buy for every team which is damn near a millions of tickets and maybe because ticketmaster monopolized ticket selling so it's convenient rather than having every team start from scratch to hire people to create their own separate marketplaces on their sites

to be clear i also find people’s ignorance toward crypto overall to be really annoying. like i tried to explain to my boomer dad the difference between monero and bitcoin and why one has clear utility whereas the other is basically a hyped up prototype and all he could do was repeat “greater fool theory greater fool theory” over and over again to me like this nigga really thought he was spitting

I literally said f*** ticket master after trying and failing to get hiatus kaiyote tickets.

Im just saying IF artists had a fool proof way to bypass this streaming s***, it would’ve happened by now.

This decade not ending without a revolt on all fronts. A reset/re-imagining of an industry/world without a financial system based on the exploitation of humans and/or resources (as most nft sources do, but u know that lol is literally the only way s*** can go through an actual change that breaks through the apathy of the consumer who ultimately has been brainwashed to lower the value of music

so it's convenient rather than having every team start from scratch to hire people to create their own separate marketplaces on their sites

Sounds like more expensive tickets lol

nigga it's not about being an activist it's about every artist in the history of the music business claiming they're being taken advantage of and can't make money. It's about Basquiat's family being able to eat off of automated royalties if what I said existed at the time instead of billionaires currently reselling his work while his family is in poverty. It's about the reparations you see niggas complaining about everyday but actively doing the opposite and giving all the benefits to people that don't care about them and use the money reinforce the institutions used to entrap the next person. You don't have to be an activist to maximize the benefit you and others get from your own work, you just have to not be an idiot. Nothing I said requires becoming Malcolm X, these services and technologies already exist

It's easy to judge someone but u don't know what it's like

I just listened to a song, starting it over 10x before it reached the end and it reminded me of this thread

I'm 100% sure that the streaming services won't count that as 10 streams. Might not even count it as 1 stream by claiming "oh it seems like suspicious bot activity". They can do whatever they want to keep more money for themselves with their algorithms and these artists don't even care to scrutinize when it's their livelihood

Meanwhile ppl in this thread supporting that lol whose side are you on