Go Buy Some Music You Deadbeat Streamers!

The amount of money artists make from streaming is a big problem. I don’t know how it can be solved. The boomers are on their way out. Younger generations feel that music is free (many of them, not all).

There is still a lot of money being spent on recorded music, including streaming, the artists have to band together and demand a reasonable share of it from the record companies.

The artists contribute to this problem by releasing really bad sounding music on physical formats. Many albums are poorly recorded and dynamically squashed. I listen to them through streaming and decide that I don’t want a physical copy. I won’t listen to it.

I don’t think it’s really hard to make a good sounding album, you just have to care.

It used to be the artists had to tour to promote their albums to make money.  Now (COVID crisis aside) they have to record albums to promote their tours - which is how they now make money.  

I guess I am in the 10% minority with my recent purchase of 4 CDs by artist Marcus King, a very good younger soul, southern rock, and blues guitarist/songwriter.
Those CDs were immediately ripped to my Antipodes server and then good to go for playing in my vehicle.
However, these days, like the trend, I purchase much, much less physical media.  Except for the music I ripped to my server from my moderately large collection of formerly purchased CDs, I mostly listen to stuff available on Tidal.

I just sunk two grand into cassettes the last couple of months. Was that wrong of me? 😳

The digital side of my system is acting as an expensive paperweight on my stereo rack.  I've been listening and buying strictly vinyl these days.  So much more satisfying!