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Re: Freemediaheckyeah – A collection of free stuff on the internet

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Post by femto »

k12sosse wrote: post #10
parpfish wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In the music space, piracy won. After Napster, there was no going back from giving people immediate unlimited access to everything. Streamers like Spotify learned that there’s a price point that is low enough for people to “round down” and forget it’s on their monthly credit card statement, but high enough that major label execs are happy. The trick is ignoring what the artists want.

Jokes on us, after all has settled. Have you tried to buy a ticket to live music lately? It was $750 for a good seat in more than 1 occasion this past year, and that is first market tickets from the venue, not a traditionally 'scalped' ticket. These two equations are tied together. Before, the lucky artists were front-loaded their buckets of cash from the labels. But now the royalty cheques are measured in pennies an…

$5 at the local Blues Jam Session. Some of the music is good.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/berowramonthlyjam/

$30 or "free" at Miss Celie's. If free, patrons are asked to buy a couple of drinks from the bar.

https://misscelies.com.au/

An import playing a stadium is eye-watering, but why bother?

Re: Freemediaheckyeah – A collection of free stuff on the internet

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Post by inigyou »

akoboldfrying wrote: post #28
zetanor wrote: post #24

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You can find their work for free here: https://fmhy.net Just keep it hush-hush.

Thanks, but I should have been clearer: I meant the work they use to pay for their groceries. That's the good stuff.

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Re: Freemediaheckyeah – A collection of free stuff on the internet

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Post by inigyou »

k12sosse wrote: post #10
parpfish wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In the music space, piracy won. After Napster, there was no going back from giving people immediate unlimited access to everything. Streamers like Spotify learned that there’s a price point that is low enough for people to “round down” and forget it’s on their monthly credit card statement, but high enough that major label execs are happy. The trick is ignoring what the artists want.

Jokes on us, after all has settled. Have you tried to buy a ticket to live music lately? It was $750 for a good seat in more than 1 occasion this past year, and that is first market tickets from the venue, not a traditionally 'scalped' ticket. These two equations are tied together. Before, the lucky artists were front-loaded their buckets of cash from the labels. But now the royalty cheques are measured in pennies an…

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Re: Freemediaheckyeah – A collection of free stuff on the internet

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Post by defrost »

atomicnumber3 wrote: post #27
parpfish wrote: post #20

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Most of the people that complain about ticket prices are going to ticketmaster venues to see elaborate productions built by the biggest artists in the world. When I tell people that I used to go to at least one show every week on my grad student stipend they are very confused. It’s because I was seeing music by local bands or up-and-coming acts that would charge $10 in the back of a dive bar. Those types of shows are…

Lots of local metal shows are in the $15 range, so not too far off

Growing up the Pub Rock scene was pretty eclectic and cost less than buying a round for your friends.

The Old Greek Theatre staged some high Art at times: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxoODPQ4CTM

Re: Freemediaheckyeah – A collection of free stuff on the internet

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Post by FiniteIntegral »

I've used this site for years, I originally found it off their subreddit. When they finally moved to a dedicated site it really improved the whole user experience from whatever reddit CSS was doing.

The admins keep it consistently updated and remove problem sources on a regular basis.

Re: Freemediaheckyeah – A collection of free stuff on the internet

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Post by cortesoft »

k12sosse wrote: post #10
parpfish wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In the music space, piracy won. After Napster, there was no going back from giving people immediate unlimited access to everything. Streamers like Spotify learned that there’s a price point that is low enough for people to “round down” and forget it’s on their monthly credit card statement, but high enough that major label execs are happy. The trick is ignoring what the artists want.

Jokes on us, after all has settled. Have you tried to buy a ticket to live music lately? It was $750 for a good seat in more than 1 occasion this past year, and that is first market tickets from the venue, not a traditionally 'scalped' ticket. These two equations are tied together. Before, the lucky artists were front-loaded their buckets of cash from the labels. But now the royalty cheques are measured in pennies an…

Artists aren’t charging more for concerts because they are making less money on album sales. Concert tickets are priced based on supply and demand. If they could have been charging $750 back then, they would have, no matter how much they were making on album sales.

I do think you might be right, though, that there is a causal relationship between diminished album revenue and more expensive tickets, it just isn’t because the artists need the money. Since most people can now listen to all the music they want for a flat fee, music lovers can now spend more of their hobby money on concert tickets, which increases price very directly since supply is limited.

Re: Freemediaheckyeah – A collection of free stuff on the internet

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Post by redrove »

stackghost wrote: post #17
CobrastanJorji wrote: post #15

Note for the hacker crowd: they don't mean free as in speech. They mean free as in beer that fell off a truck.

When I was coming up, hackers embraced both those definitions. "Information wants to be free" and "fuck corporations" were our guiding principles. Edit: to the dead comment in reply to this one, of course it's more nuanced than "all information should be public at all times". It's almost like a 5-word axiom necessarily omits nuance in exchange for brevity. Hackers also used to exhibit critical thinking skills, sheesh…

That’s long gone, especially around here. YC is YC.

It’s sad the best we could do in terms of community forum is a VC’s website.

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