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How much do you pay for music? Is it $10.99 for a streaming service, or do you buy albums regularly? Music is very cheap today, but has its lower cost devalued its cultural value?
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00:25 How much does a song cost?
05:25 The cultural value of music
10:55 Capitalism degrades music
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Music used:

Tashi Wada - Grand Trine: https://tashiwada.bandcamp.com/album/...
Flora Adams - Fire Fire: https://deathisnot.bandcamp.com/album...
Hortense Ellis - Hell & Sorrow: https://deathisnot.bandcamp.com/album...
Tara Clerkin Trio - Marble Walls: https://taraclerkintrio.bandcamp.com/...
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Links to citations:

"The value of music has dropped considerably since I was born – it's not great that less people are trying to perfect their art”: Ezra Collective’s Joe Armon-Jones on the imagined musical apocalypse that inspired his double album, All The Quiet [MusicRadar]:
https://www.musicradar.com/artists/th...

Spotify, Apple Music, and Tidal pay per stream in 2025 [Ditto Music]:
https://dittomusic.com/en/blog/how-mu...
https://dittomusic.com/en/blog/how-mu...
https://dittomusic.com/en/blog/how-mu...

Mood Machine by Liz Pelly:
https://www.simonandschuster.com/book...

Karl Marx Was Right: Workers Are Systematically Exploited Under Capitalism [Jacobin]:
https://jacobin.com/2022/06/karl-marx...

The Fight Between Musicians and Venues Over Merch Profits Is a Big Deal With a Simple Solution [Pitchfork]:
https://pitchfork.com/features/articl...

Megan Thee Stallion Sues Label to Get Out of Her Contract [Pitchfork]:
https://pitchfork.com/news/megan-thee...

Bad Deals Are Baked Into the Way the Music Industry Operates [Vice]:
https://www.vice.com/en/article/bad-d...

The Tiktok Effect: Why Record Labels Are Forcing Their Artists to Make Viral TikToks [York University]:
https://www.yorku.ca/osgoode/iposgood...

Spotify made £56m profit, but has decided not to pay smaller artists like me. We need you to make some noise [The Guardian]
https://www.theguardian.com/commentis...

Who is behind the great rock’n’roll ripoff? How Ticketmaster swallowed the live entertainment scene [The Guardian]:
https://www.theguardian.com/money/202...