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Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
I am still waiting for this one too which is needing funds to finish.
http://wreckingcrew.tv/
And even if they are, it's not the problem. They're not your target audience - they're not mine anyway.
My target audience (by the very nature of our music) are OTHER creative types.
The problem is that it's the musicians who are stealing from other musicians. Chances are most of you pirate music, or television shows, or kindle books. Or you listen on Spotify or stream on Bandcamp. I do it as well, it's just the way we've learned to live our lives.
It does suck. But hey, I'm sure someone will be along very shortly to say that it's always been difficult for musicians, and that they've been fat cats for too long, and that music should be global and shouldn't be only for those who have money, blah blah blah blah... all typed out on a brand new iPhone or iPad with as much sincerity as a psychopath.
The business model hasn't changed. The monolithic entities became Bandcamp and CDBaby. The advertising exec's who'd run a campaign for you became Facebook adverts and Twitter followers. The system is exactly the same. The only difference now, the nets are big enough to capture more fish. That's how they want it. They don't want you to be successful, that doesn't help them.
@Drew_fx - good points well made .. have a wisdom .. :-)
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
I don't think I have anything - games, music, films - that wasn't either deliberately given away by the creator, or paid for by me. I don't think I'm enormously unusual in this either (though I know that there are people who are the complete opposite).
We're also on Spotify. We don't get fuck all from it, except everyone's favourite excuse for putting up with it; you may not get paid, but you get exposure you wouldn't otherwise get! Quit ya bitchin' and write me a song peasant!!
It's not a terribly good outlet for the artist, which is why plenty of artists have pulled their stuff. If we were bigger, we'd pull out stuff too.
Here are some stats for ya from our last CDBaby invoice:
I'm sure from that you could probably extrapolate our sales figures across the past 4 years or so. But suffice to say, iTunes and direct sales make up the bulk of our income (such as it is!) and Spotify is right at the bottom. You get something like 0.00458pence per-play, so unless you're Toyah Wilcox or Judas Priest or some bullshit like that, you aint making any money!
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
Most people would find it too hard and too risky to try and steal anything physical but mp3/film downloads are so incredibly easy to obtain with so little risk that most people can't justify not stealing it when compared with spending their money on other things they want, i.e. your iPad example.
I tend to use Bandcamp and Youtube to audition stuff, and if I like it I buy it.
Trust me, Spotify is WAY down the list. iTunes has made us over $500 over the years (still a shit amount) and Spotify has made us about $40
It's like... we're having a conversation about the colour of grass, and you barge in waving your arms talking about quantum mechanics. That's how nonsensical your post is in the current context, and it doesn't justify how little the likes of Spotify pass on to their artists.
If someone steals our album instead of paying a poxy fiver for it on Bandcamp, the medium they decide to play it on really has no meaning for me. They stole our music that we spent over two years of our lives making; not to mentioning having some of the best production values from a non-label solely DIY band.
I believe in paying someone if they create something that I enjoy.
We just saw fucking dinner ladies - DINNER LADIES - get the legal right to earn the same as bin men. Why don't musicians have a similar lobbyist group? Because no-one gives a fuck. That's why. Plenty more where those chumps came from, keep feeding our children the rockstar dream...