![]() For many boomers and Millenials who grew up in a completely different era, it’s a sad thing to behold. This new culture is degrading the quality of the music consumed. To make up for the low payout from DSPs, artists are becoming internet freaks and clowns so they can attract the most attention and make money from merchandise and brand deals. In 2015, a single two-copy CD of Once Upon a Time in Shaolin created by the legendary hip-hop group, Wu-tang Clan, was sold for millions of dollars to Martin Shkreli in an open auction.įollowing popular trends and hopping on TikTok hashtags. We see this rule play out when Nike releases a limited edition of a sneaker or when gas becomes scarce and we have to pay more to acquire less fuel. As Mark Twain puts it in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, “…in order to make a person covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.” That, of course, is the oldest trick in the book but it works like a charm even to this day. The common rule of thumb when it comes to upping the price of a product is to make it rare. ![]() The paragraph reads, “there is no such thing as “rare” when you’re talking about content that’s distributed primarily via the internet.” While I do not share her stance on the issue, one paragraph stood out as a bitter truth. I stumbled on a 2017 article by Kaitlyn Tiffany of the Verge which discussed the old brawl between Taylor Swift and Spotify in a critical manner.
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