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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
Bono: "I don't believe in free music. Music is a sacrament"
None of the artists I listen to regularly sell commercial music. They are on Youtube or Soundcloud and give all their stuff away for free. You sometimes have the option to buy tracks or LPs or whatever but it all streams for free in the first place to get you to listen and to share the music. They seem to be able to make this economic model work just fine.
Bono / Pono high quality formats won't catch on simply because the average lowest common denominator consumer can't tell the difference between a 64k Mp3 and a lossless FLAC on their crappy iPhone speakers or stock earbuds and don't care. Audiophiles on the other hand, who do care about quality, probably don't want to listen to mass market commercial music most of the time.
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Who are these artists and what kind of living are they able to make? I'm curious what the impact not being able to sell albums has had on bands who are somewhere between U2 and being a hobbyist on youtube. What's it like for an emerging band that has a bit of a following online, but can't sell albums and can't finance a massive tour?
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A few weeks after crashing head-first into the boards (denting his helmet and being unable to move for a little while) following a hit from behind by Bob Errey, the Calgary Flames player explains:
"I was like Christ, lying on my back, with my arms outstretched, crucified"
-- Frank Musil - Early January 1994
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