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Don't be frustrated or mad. The more music there is, the less people are willing to pay per song. I listen to Pandora for free and I still feel like the value is limited.

More music = less value per track. Artists shouldn't take it personally, its just a saturated market.

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I've just given up listening to large commercial music, and only listen to music that's uploaded to YouTube by smaller artists (often with free downloads).

I still have more to choose from than I could ever listen to, and haven't noticed any serious decrease in quality.

Agreed. There is a lot of really good stuff, especially internationally.

Thought you guys might sound good-willed. The arbitrary devaluing comparison of "arts" aka "enough good musics" out there, kind of craps on what good music consists of.

Yeah there's a real counterfactual here, of what could exist but doesn't due to the existing market forces.

oh, and what are we supposed to do, not listen to the good mudic people put out already, and not buy their CDs on amazon, and not go to their local concerts, and not buy their swag, because there are other, better artist who are not producing work because they haven't received a $250,000 advance on their contract?

No, those are all the right things to do. The problem is more about the indie musician who spends a few thousand dollars producing a collection of songs, only to be told to not even try to sell the cd, release the songs through a streaming service for hundredths of pennies per listen, and then expect to make their recording costs back through "touring and merchandise" while releasing their songs for basically-free as a "marketing expense", even while the market is saturated by other musicians that have bought into the same advice. The fan that actually makes a point to listen to the music, and buy the cd, and attend the local concert is a good fan, but the market forces are actually against that activity.

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