[FatherofFive]

I’m really out of the new music scene, and haven’t bought new music for over 20 years. I never get tired of what is in my collection. I do like live music.

but with digital, who buys music anymore?

[AndyJackson]

The Great Reset is not new. It is very very old. It’s goal is to demolish democracy and put all power, all property and all wealth in the hands of a the new dukes and earls and counts of the modern world. And they want to do it the old fashioned way - through the maintenance of Royal favor and patents Royal granting monopolies to the favored.

The growth of intellectual property laws is not to protect the little guy. It’s to protect the already wealthy and powerful.

[BobL]

I wonder how many of these ‘artists’ supported Trump?

[Shady]

It's all tied into the Hedge Fund ATMs, IHateRadio, Cumulus, and the rest of the major radio media owners. IHeart owns Live Nation and they almost monopolize live performance now, and obviously the radio station playlists are dominated by their “consultants and programmers” who play “their hits” and force their music down the throats of the listeners. To give you an example of how they operate, in our Market IHeart owns 5 radio stations, they have NO ONE live (or local) on any of those 5 stations. They have one studio that hasn't been used since March of 2020, and the previous GM stated to us that “the national programming is “so much better” than anything local. It, in MHO, is a violation of the principle that the stations are licensed to serve the public interest..

[ronnie raygun]

The problem with this assertion is that the labels themselves are what’s wrong with artists’ revenue streams today. They have been for a long time.
Speaking from experience being in the industry most of my life. They ruined it.

[minnesota_bound]

Google’s Youtube is the biggest content stealer. They allow copyrighted tv, movies, songs to be used and they collect ad money.

It is easy to download anything there with free software.

[minnesota_bound]

Hollywood / the entertainment industry are made up of many thieves. The music industry is no different then hollywood in that an act can sell millions of copies but the members of the act get no money.

Hollywood accounting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting