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1 hour ago, NotThePars said:

The last record I bought without pre listening was Dananananakroyd's album and it was shit. Which was great cause I was also like 17 and also had nae money. Streaming is much better.

I completely forgot about them

They were briefly my favourite band. Will relisten later

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11 minutes ago, Melanius Mullarkey said:

Spotify do f**k over the majority of artists (not the big c***s) but it’s handy for the car.  
 

Depends what the alternatives are as to whether they are exploiting artists.

broadly speaking, artists get about £1 for each cd sale or .2p for a stream. Based on that it looks like a bad deal.

But streaming isn’t just a substitute for purchasing. Like you say, you listen in the car, where it might have been radio 2 or some godforsaken transatlantic network bollocks 20 years ago. Radio 1 or 2 pay £100 to £150 per play. At, say 1m listeners that’s, erm .... a fair bit less than 1/5p per listen.  I’d rather have £2k per million listens than £100. 

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26 minutes ago, coprolite said:

.2p for a stream.

This is from last year, more up to date info will be available somewhere.

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  • Spotify paid the artists $0,0032 per stream
  • Apple Music got the average rate of $0,0056
  • Google Play Music landed a $0,0055 payout rate
  • Deezer fell slightly lower at $0.00436

https://soundcharts.com/blog/music-streaming-rates-payouts

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4 hours ago, Shotgun said:

 

Some of the fondest memories of my youth involve coming home with a new LP. You'd maybe only heard 1 or 2 of the tracks before and usually, not even that, so it was a voyage of discovery. Had your hard earned £3.99 been well spent or not? And then spending ages pouring over the artwork and reading every word of the sleeve notes. It's hard to imagine now but even when it was a friend who'd got the new album, you were still involved. Often sitting on the floor with him to listen, or phoning him to hear about it. Golden days. 

Even better getting it out of Woolies stuffed up your jersey.

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10 hours ago, MONKMAN said:

 


Outstanding band.

 

I just listened to the start of The Lathums first tune that came up on Spotify - not my cup of tea, but I'm guessing the lead singer lists Alex Turner amongst his inspirations?

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Cassettes were my thing back in the day. I've also got the habit of needing to purchase everything that whatever band/ artiste I've been into at the time has ever produced. 

Over the years this has included:

Supertramp

The Beatles

The Doors

Van Morrison

Half Man Half Biscuit

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Uses to live going into Fopp on a Friday and buying a new album, some great, some shite but there was just something enjoyable about going in and browsing the selection.


Every time my old man took me and my sister to Dundee for a swim at Olympia we would always be taken into town afterwards to the Fopp in the Overgate. Remember quickly getting bored in the shop and wanting to go, I’d love to go there now - if it still existed!
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3 hours ago, jamamafegan said:

 


Every time my old man took me and my sister to Dundee for a swim at Olympia we would always be taken into town afterwards to the Fopp in the Overgate. Remember quickly getting bored in the shop and wanting to go, I’d love to go there now - if it still existed!

 

Grouchos was better. Pay a little extra and get a spliff in the sleeve.

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20 hours ago, A96 said:
Having heard Richard Foster a few times on Sportsound lately , he seems to be a fairly decent , and reasonably intelligent and articulate sort of bloke.

Shame his wife is a fucking dick

You need to get back in the game, Tommy.

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