
I gave up motorbike riding due to too many close calls with bad drivers - swerving into me without indicating or looking. Cutting me off due to ‘not seeing me’, etc.
Call me safety-obsessed but if I’m on a road surrounded by cars increasingly driven by a greying population - I’m not gonna be in a $13k go-kart with a plastic tarp roof and crossing my fingers that I don’t have an accident.
Being a millennial I remember conversations about what a scam record label deals were to artists because they’d only give bands a few dollars for each CD sold. This is of course old news to gen X and older who had known earlier that record deals were a scam usually heavily slanted in favour of the label.
Then Spotify came out and it was reported that it gave ~$0.003-0.007 per stream to labels (then artists would get a smaller cut of that), and I dismissed it as a hilariously terrible deal.
But I was wrong and most people seemed very happy to give up their mp3 & physical collections so they could stream a wider library, I guess it’s unrealistic to expect most people to choose ethics over convenience. There does seem to be a swing back to rolling your own micro server hosting something like Navidrome or Plex and streaming your own music, which is great to see.
P.s. I’m a KGatLW fan and have a couple albums on Bandcamp, this is gonna make me buy a couple more in support. Great group of people