If Spotify is still at the half penny per stream payment rate, the equivalent of a million selling, ten-track album at ten average plays per album would mean $500,000 in income with zero overhead.
― timellison, Friday, 11 October 2013 05:05 (ten years ago) link
I mean, I realize that's only 50 cents per album, but maybe the rates will go up if Spotify is able to generate more revenue. Or maybe they won't - maybe that's just a new model.
― timellison, Friday, 11 October 2013 05:08 (ten years ago) link
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Friday, 11 October 2013 05:09 (ten years ago) link
If you're more likely to buy music if you pirate music (which seems to be the case, right?) and its also true that if you listen to Spotify then you're less likely to buy music (is that true? I'm sure I read somewhere it was) then maybe Drag City have made the call that its better for the bottom line to stay away.
― he had tons of money in the bank and left the toilet seat up (NotEnough), Friday, 11 October 2013 11:00 (ten years ago) link
i still find pirating music to be kind of a pain in the ass and in most cases not worth it, especially as a music-discovery tool. you have to do a google search, find some blog that still has working links to the mp3s, then go to some ad-ridden torrent or bullshit MEGAUPLOAD site, download your files, etc. so since drag city doesn't have a relatively easy way to discover its music, the less likely i'm going to take time to explore their artists (and then later go buy their albums). easier discovery of music, for me, means more new music i'm going to listen to (obviously), and the more new music i hear, the more i'm going to buy music.
― marcos, Friday, 11 October 2013 13:38 (ten years ago) link
like i'm not going to spend time pirating some minor bonnie prince billy record to see if i should buy it. it just seems tedious. more likely, i'm just not going hear it until there is an easier way to spend enough time with the album to help me decide it i should buy it.
― marcos, Friday, 11 October 2013 13:42 (ten years ago) link
Run the Jewels was a free mixtape, probably some sample clearance issues keeps it off Spottty.
Run The Jewels is also in record shops on CD fwiw
― I'm not a rockist, I just hate Rap-A-Lot (sic), Friday, 11 October 2013 14:32 (ten years ago) link
ah, probably a free download for a spell and then released physically?
― I got the glares, the mutterings, the snarls (President Keyes), Friday, 11 October 2013 14:59 (ten years ago) link
man i swear i think run the jewels was on there at one point cuz it kept recommending it to me
― balls, Friday, 11 October 2013 15:15 (ten years ago) link
Just noticed that the Boards of Canada catalog is now on US Spotify
― Moodles, Sunday, 3 November 2013 23:32 (ten years ago) link
Cool thx.
― Blecch Dreieinigkeitsmoses (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 3 November 2013 23:59 (ten years ago) link
Blimey they're finally adding Zeppelin - one album per day by the looks of things.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 16:55 (ten years ago) link
aphrodite's child
― diamonddave85, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 17:10 (ten years ago) link
more Zep info, article is really mostly abt Spotify though
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/12/business/media/spotify-said-to-secure-exclusive-deal-with-led-zeppelin.html?hp&_r=0
― sleeve, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 17:22 (ten years ago) link
When credible rivals to Spotify start appearing we're going to see labels taking their stuff off en-masse as they start signing exclusive deals.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 17:24 (ten years ago) link
Do you really think so? Labels didn't ever exclusivey sell their physical products with just one chain, did they? I mean outside of a limited edition or something. Maybe some material will be exclusively with a streaming service for a period of time but not in perpetuity. The labels make more money spreading it all around.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 17:49 (ten years ago) link
The Necks― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Friday, October 11, 2013 12:09 AM (2 months ago)
tier newest one is up and i highly recommend it-- might be my AOY
― |$̲̅(̲̅ιοο̲̅)̲̅$̲̅| (gr8080), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 19:35 (ten years ago) link
Entire Zep catalog on there now
― Ornate Coleman (Moodles), Sunday, 15 December 2013 08:23 (ten years ago) link
Most of the Peter Gabriel albums are on in the US now, I just noticed.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 22 January 2014 23:06 (ten years ago) link
woah that is excellent news
― |$̲̅(̲̅ιοο̲̅)̲̅$̲̅| (gr8080), Wednesday, 22 January 2014 23:37 (ten years ago) link
early sabbath also finally
― balls, Thursday, 23 January 2014 00:17 (ten years ago) link
sweet! I updated my 70s Hard 'n' Heavy playlist from last year's big 70s countdown
― Evil Juice Box Man (Moodles), Thursday, 23 January 2014 02:32 (ten years ago) link
yeah it ruined this year's ilm poll for me cuz there's not alot there that isn't gonna get blown away by anything on vol. 4.
― balls, Thursday, 23 January 2014 02:45 (ten years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol, Sunday, 26 January 2014 18:47 (ten years ago) link
early sabbaths always been available in uk. Wonder why it took so long for usa. Bigger market they actually sell cds in?
― ۩, Sunday, 26 January 2014 19:14 (ten years ago) link
Funkadelic's WB records aren't on Spotify but are on MOG for some reason.
― Naive Teen Idol, Sunday, 2 February 2014 14:57 (ten years ago) link
elliott smith added.
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Sunday, 2 March 2014 07:39 (ten years ago) link
all the more recent Prince albums but based on sampling 'em doesn't seem like I'm missing out on much
― nova, Sunday, 2 March 2014 09:33 (ten years ago) link
why is Lovesexy just one long track?
― I got the glares, the mutterings, the snarls (President Keyes), Sunday, 2 March 2014 16:54 (ten years ago) link
that's how prince released it, it's the same way on cd
― balls, Sunday, 2 March 2014 17:01 (ten years ago) link
the copy I got has 'em separated. Which is good since I like five songs and that'd be a pain
― nova, Monday, 3 March 2014 05:07 (ten years ago) link
Yeah I found a cue sheet online on some prince board and split mine into tracks with it. Only time I've ever done anything like that.
― grape is the flavor of my true love's hair (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 4 March 2014 02:11 (ten years ago) link
― |$̲̅(̲̅ιοο̲̅)̲̅$̲̅| (gr8080), Thursday, 12 December 2013 6:35 AM (2 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Hmmm ... I'm in Australia, and I can only find one Necks track (on a comp) on Spotify. :-(
― Wordy, Wednesday, 5 March 2014 03:22 (ten years ago) link
The Coil selection is meagre (relative to their output!), but I guess there are legal complexities there.
Also, no Comsat Angels.
― Wordy, Wednesday, 5 March 2014 03:25 (ten years ago) link
Weirdly, there's stuff on Spotify mobile I can get with no trouble, but it ain't there when I'm on the PC
― ornamental cabbage (James Morrison), Wednesday, 5 March 2014 23:24 (ten years ago) link
And yeah,the Necks in Aus are unavailable
― ornamental cabbage (James Morrison), Wednesday, 5 March 2014 23:25 (ten years ago) link
t rex
― brimstead, Thursday, 6 March 2014 03:08 (ten years ago) link
gah n/m, there's t rex t. rex, t.rex
― brimstead, Thursday, 6 March 2014 03:09 (ten years ago) link
Looks like the whole(?) Numero catalogue is up now!
― μ thant (seandalai), Friday, 7 March 2014 16:32 (ten years ago) link
I noticed last night that The Kinks' 60s catalog is now on there.
― Free Me's Electric Trumpet (Moodles), Sunday, 26 April 2015 14:48 (nine years ago) link
Yeah that was a nice surprise
― da croupier, Sunday, 26 April 2015 14:48 (nine years ago) link
Though actually the nice surprise for me wasn't the 60s stuff - most of which I own - but the ability to explore all the post-Lola stuff without spending money
― da croupier, Sunday, 26 April 2015 14:49 (nine years ago) link
yeah, it just took a lot longer for the earlier stuff to show up
― Free Me's Electric Trumpet (Moodles), Sunday, 26 April 2015 15:00 (nine years ago) link
was everything post-lola there until now? i thought there was just a handful of kinks before now - that the 60s classics showed up with more of the 70s & 80s as well. but anyway, yeah, glad the kinks are more explorable in general.
― da croupier, Sunday, 26 April 2015 15:33 (nine years ago) link
There was a point previously when a lot of the old Kinks releases were on there, then much of it was taken off. Glad they're back.
― Small Town Pizza Lawyer (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 26 April 2015 19:01 (nine years ago) link
oh hey did the RVNG catalogue just show up?
― pep ponk aliyev (seandalai), Monday, 12 October 2015 23:48 (eight years ago) link
nice!!
― brimstead, Tuesday, 13 October 2015 02:21 (eight years ago) link
Owen Ashworth's catalog (Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, Advance Base) has been missing from Spotify for about a year, but this morning I saw he wrote a feature for Tidal promoting his record, so I guess it's on there. Must be an anti-Spotify thing a la Taylor Swift?
Wish Drag City would break and go streaming, at some point the revenue curve has gotta bend as more and more people go streaming only and artists on the label go increasingly off the radar and out of the cultural conversation. I would even pay $5/month for an all-DC streaming service, which is $60 more a year they're getting from me now just bc I don't want to hassle with files.
Missing the Felt catalogue, Comsat Angels, and big chunks of Momus, hope to see 'em show up someday.
― westofrome, Tuesday, 13 October 2015 14:56 (eight years ago) link
"missing big chunks of Momus" is a display name waiting to happen
― a literal scarecrow on a quaint porch (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 13 October 2015 14:58 (eight years ago) link
Whoever nabs DC streaming rights will get my money.
― Badmotorfinger Debate Club (MFB), Wednesday, 14 October 2015 07:59 (eight years ago) link