Post #1654403
2025-12-23 16:55 UTC
@YanK @fstateaudio
Sure because hearing a song a friend recorded would NEVER mean you might go buy the album or something, right? Like, why did they play those songs on the radio where you could hear them FOR FREE anyway?
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@fstateaudio@mastodon.sdf.org 2025-12-24 00:04
@darwinwoodka @YanK If you look into the history, radio is really where the whole clusterfuck started, and only remained free because people worked to keep it that way. It helped that the general public consensus was that the airwaves weren't something that could be owned. But even then, it wasn't really free, it was just that the radio stations were paying the fees, and making their money in turn through advertising.