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    its the easiest boycott ever. you can listen to their music while still boycotting them.

    run the archive tema warrior if you can. donate to them, or help them back it up.

  • @[email protected]
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    09 days ago

    this is why I just be buying CDs, cassettes, vinyls and BandCamp/ whatever digital download platform the artist uses and putting it on Jellyfin. Can’t buy from the artist directly? well, then we participate the computings oldest profession.

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    That’s why we pay an extra on any Hardware that could possibly be used to pirate it, so that such lawsuits aren’t neccessary, right? Right?

  • TacoButtPlug
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    08 days ago

    Guess I’ll increase my monthly donation and boycott the recording industry. Time for torrents.

  • Xanthrax
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    This is an amazing example of how stupid this situation is:

    https://youtu.be/sfXn_ecH5Rw

    (Adam Neely)

    They’re mostly focusing on pitch. They’re not focusing on rhythm. They’re not focusing on timbre. They’re focusing on a series of notes. You are INCREDIBLY limited in what you can do with those notes. Not to mention the whole step/ half step pattern.

    Edit: I know this is random, but one of my instructors was a backup singer for Katie Perry, and she sucked. If you can find an Asian man with a bald head doing a head bob in the background of Katie Perry concert, I’ll give you 10+ points. He also sounds 10× better than her, lmao.

      • @[email protected]
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        So first, music isn’t just chords. Second, there’s only so many combinations that actually sound good. There’s a whole field of music theory around this. Chord progressions kind of set the tone of the song. Different countries actually have different favored progressions - it’s kind of interesting.

        You should look into it. Because it sounds like you’re just mad at how music works.

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    Well, okay but that’s a relatively new thing. In the olden times the record industry was very honorab-ahahahahaha ahhhhhh fuck. Yeah, no they’ve always been crooks and scum. But sometimes they did good by accident. That was before the accountants took over, though. Way back.

    • @[email protected]
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      09 days ago

      Like when blank music cd’s (specifically for music cd copiers) cost more because they knew people were pirating CDs?

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        08 days ago

        Sure, or the death of DAT, the overcharging of printed CDs, longboxes, there’s a huge list of terrible things.

  • @[email protected]
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    09 days ago

    Don’t yall just love opening up the Way back machine page and loading up your playlist and using that instead of Spotify?

    Fucking idiots.

    • stebo
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      09 days ago

      yeah I was wondering what has music to do with the wayback machine?

      • irelephant [he/him]🍭
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        08 days ago

        The Internet Archive does more than just the Wayback Machine.
        They have a project called Great78, to archive every 78 RPM record, since they are deteriorating. The lawsuits from the music firms are taking issue with that, depsite no-one using it as a replacement for buying or streaming music. The “Damages” are bullshit.
        Funding the lawsuit, and potentially losing it does threaten the Wayback Machine, and the archive as a whole.

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      ??? what the fuck are you taking about? You know there are other ways to stream music right? Jellyfin, Gonic, Ampache. All selfhostable and able to use your own media. Theres also indie friendly websites like SoundCloud, BandCamp and (believe it or not) MySpace. Are you really simping for spotify right now?

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      I disagree with the big labels, preservation is important and they are not selling this music anyways (at least not as scratchy old 78 recordings) but… I do stream a lot from the archive and I am not alone. There are apps for a ton of live music, all with bands that agreed to it.

      But There is even a 78 app for listening to the 78’s.

      I won’t use Spotify though.

      m3u text based playlists kick ass. Everything else… Meh.

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    Capitalism is dead, and the labels were part of the poison. This is a death rattle for recording companies. Parasites

  • Franklin
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    09 days ago

    fuck capatalists man, will destroy any good in the world, with their short sited fodder for the profit machine.