An Excellent New Read: "A Brief History Of Why Artists Are No Longer Making A Living..."

@orpheus10 :

Ivan, I'm just thankful that you are one of the few around here that's looking at anything outside of our little "ballywick".

I'm getting kind of sick of hearing this. You have no idea who we are or what our collective life experience is. Which makes your assumption an arrogant and totally unsupportable stereotype. The irony is that you are accusing an entire group of people of being sheltered and ignorant while doing so from a position of sheltered ignorance.

@2channel8, you say:

"I worry about how the dwindling income of artists may affect the availability of good music." 

I don't think anyone, including the author of the article in question has established in any way whatsoever that the income of artists is dwindling. I'm not even sure there is a way to measure that. 

That's why I reacted negatively to the article to begin with....the whole premise is flawed. He starts with an assumption that he doesn't even try to prove and then spends the rest of the article telling us why it happened.

The huge irony is that this article comes as more and more people are discovering more and more new artists that they'd never heard of and NEVER WOULD HAVE without digital streaming.

n80, it isn't necessary to know anything, only believe what you see around you; stores closing, malls closed a long time ago; things have changes more in the last 20 years than they have in the last 120 years; for the worst.

The question was, "Why aren't artists no longer making a living"? you could ask that same question about millions of other people all over this country.