They’re not really mentioning stitcher any more

Sadly that place was a covid casualty, so you’re not going to get the opportunity

I miss eating at Pok Pok

I worked for a few labels back in the day. Bands could make money depending on if they're discerning with who they signed with. Some indie labels split profits down the middle after costs are recouped

Problem is each and every revenue stream is a fraction of what it used to be

Daniel Ek (Spotify CEO) is 3x richer than Paul McCartney. If that doesn't bun you out enough, he uses his fortune to invest in sketchy AI for military applications., plus you know… Joe Rogan and all that shit

Fuck that guy in the face

Nah. My band's releases that I have the rights to are not on Spotify on purpose. I'm not going to give you free use of my art so you can pay myself and my bandmates almost enough to get a sandwich every quarter.

Fuck right off with that insulting shit.

I worked at labels for years… that's not the way it works

If an artist is enough of a dummy to blow their entire advance unwisely quitting their job, spend months in the studio, and get an elaborate tour bus: the label will pay for it but those expenditures are weighed against your royalties. Scummy labels exist, sure, but often the artist went on a spending spree with what anointed to a loan the label was paying them.

Spotify also pays absolute garbage and fucks bands harder than most labels were ever able to

Well, it did do a lot of its learning on reddit and Twitter. Garbage in, garbage out

as long as the “Fuck Spez” tags are kept to a minimum

It had some cool features, like how you could group/rank who you were following. It was just missing users

I think the best allegory I saw was someone trying to get into an exclusive club with a really long line. They finally get in and the place is empty so it sucks

I’m wondering if Bluesky is doing the same thing to itself

Reddit was sucking for a bit. I’m really hopeful that the majority that made the jump are the more “quality” posters (for lack of a better word) and that this place will be a lot more like the reddit that we all look back fondly on