Being a millennial I remember conversations about what a scam record label deals were to artists because they'd only give bands a few dollars for each CD sold. This is of course old news to gen X and older who had known earlier that record deals were a scam usually heavily slanted in favour of the label.

Then Spotify came out and it was reported that it gave ~$0.003-0.007 per stream to labels (then artists would get a smaller cut of that), and I dismissed it as a hilariously terrible deal.

But I was wrong and most people seemed very happy to give up their mp3 & physical collections so they could stream a wider library, I guess it's unrealistic to expect most people to choose ethics over convenience. There does seem to be a swing back to rolling your own micro server hosting something like Navidrome or Plex and streaming your own music, which is great to see.

P.s. I'm a KGatLW fan and have a couple albums on Bandcamp, this is gonna make me buy a couple more in support. Great group of people

[–] fne8w2ah@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

That should be rightfully recognised as 21st century payola aka payola 2.0.

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