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  • Leszeklpryszcz@genomic.social
    Jun 28, 2026, 7:46 PM

    "Spotify's effective payout averages roughly $0.003 to $0.005 per stream... By contrast, Bandcamp pays artists roughly 82% of each sale. A direct $10 album sale can exceed revenue from thousands of streams. Buying music or books directly from artists, whether physical or DRM-free digital, is one of the most direct ways to support them."
    Artists are likely better off when you #buy one album (and #pirate the rest) than from your #streaming #subscription!
    #music #capitalism
    dervis.de/physical/

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  • Paul HouleUP8@mastodon.social
    Jun 30, 2026, 8:13 PM

    @lpryszcz i would say thought it was a pretty defining experience one summer I was trying to gentle a stray cat and brought all my DVDs and Blu-Rays, an XBOX ONE and a TV to the room and didn't end up watching a single disc; the cat ran away when it got the chance, hid in our hayloft through the winter and started showing his face and demanding food the next spring!

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  • Randulo.com (Randy)randulo@mastodon.social
    Jul 1, 2026, 6:02 AM

    @lpryszcz Spotify doesn't sell music. Yes, there's a case for physical media, but some people in today's world do not want it. They buy digital from Apple and others.

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  • Leszeklpryszcz@genomic.social
    Jul 1, 2026, 12:19 PM

    @randulo it's not about owning physical media, Bandcamp sells digital media without DRM, so you own the music and truly support the artist, instead of generating profit mainly to big corporation (Spotify)

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  • Randulo.com (Randy)randulo@mastodon.social
    Jul 1, 2026, 12:37 PM

    @lpryszcz Amazon dropped DRM too. But I was reacting to "physical media" the title;
    EDIT: I know AMZ books are DRM, but I read in two places that AMZ Music is not, but I didn't check, so I may be off.
    I own some physical media, but mostly, I've ripped it and given it away. I keep stuff I am playing on.
    I repeat pretty ofen publicly that I think the majority of listeners don't care about any of this. They turn on a stream and aren't even listening closely. Maybe someone did a poll?

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  • Bastelwombatbastelwombat@chaos.social
    Jul 1, 2026, 1:32 PM

    @lpryszcz The natural way is to start pirating stuff, realize you like it, and then buy some of it. Can‘t afford to buy things of unknown quality.

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