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Kate Nash and Lily Allen on OnlyFans should be a wake-up call for the music industry (www.standard.co.uk)

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (3 children)

Back during the Napster days, Howard Stern had the Foo Fighters on. He asked them what their thought of the whole Napster vs. Metallica legal debate.

Dave Grohl told him he was 100 percent for Napster, explaining that they barely made a dime from record sales, and instead made the bulk of their money from touring and t-shirt sales. And that very few musicians were in the same boat as Metallica, actually making money from their album sales.

So from that point of view, the more people who were exposed to their music meant the more folks who might want to go see them in concert.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 weeks ago

I spent more money on music during the Napster days than any other time in my life. I discovered so much that I otherwise never would have been exposed to. I bought CDs, I went to concerts, I bought the T-shirts of bands I only listen to because of Napster.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 weeks ago

The best argument I ever heard in favor of Napster was that songs were already being given out for free all the time on the radio. What's the difference if they're being given out for free online?

I was made aware of the fact that touring and merch is the bulk of how bands make money by the documentary The Other F Word. It followed around a bunch of aging punk rockers from Rancid and Goldfinger and other bands.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago

And the irony was that Metallica got their big break because people were trading bootlegs of their tapes around.