Music sucks and is more commercial than ever because it's harder than ever before to sustain yourself financially as an artist.
>You used to be able to wageslave part time or just become a hippie and you could still scrape by enough cash to get a place to live and start recording music.
>Now wageslavery is getting so bad that the only music getting picked up are the ones being pushed by big labels.
>Labels have picked up on niche markets like soundcloud rap, pc music, etc and have started to manufacture their own indie artists to maximize profits because real indie artists aren't as reliable in terms of being servants.
This explains the rise of Clairo and many other industry plants.
Capitalism is destroying the independent artist because it's become financially impossible to be an independent artist. You either sell your soul to wageslavery or busk in the subway for cigarette money.
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SoundCloud Rap is far from niche and no major label is making PC Music esque shit.
Also, it’s easier than ever because of Bandcamp and the internet making anything available at your finger tips. Also, you can still work a part time job.
Didint read. Dont care
facts lmao
>easier than ever before
as someone who makes a living making music that's a complete lie. Even when I talk to artists that Yea Forums loves they tell me how much hard work they've been putting in.
It's hard, hard, labor. There's nothing easy about forcing yourself into creative states while trying to also make a living and survive.
the internet also makes widespread pirating way easier, at least with bootleg tapes it couldn't spread as easily at good quality.
it's kind of crazy in a way for an artist to hate wage slavery and yet expect wage slaves to pay for their livelihood
the best music is almost always made by people who are not making a living off of music
making excellent music > recognition > livelihood
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rip mark
desu if that's what you took from this post you are so mentally class cucked that it's just hopeless
Patently untrue
Labels spamming garbage using subsidy isn't capitalism.
No, it is.
This.
You can live off busking tho
this has been the case for a long time
groups like the beatles and the rolling stones are a fundamental expression of capitalism: music pushed ever-closer to the lowest common denominator, with the mantra "whatever it takes to sell tickets". musicians with the highest ambition and talent have been forced over the last century to lower themselves to producing barroom jams. The few works of real beauty that these servants have managed to produce in spite of their circumstances have been held up as evidence that everything is fine: "See, the free market can create art, too!"
all you are noticing lately is that, as the middle class is eradicated, musicians no longer need to bother to appeal to middle-brow tastes
most artists and bands that make a living are really mediocre and my theory is that most artists and bands that make a living went into music mostly just to escape wage slavery.
On the other hand, costs are lower than ever. Cheap audio interfaces now exceed the limits of human hearing. A cheap guitar sounds just as good as an expensive one if you set up right and use some good amp modeling software. Good sampled drums sound convincingly real. Affordable microphones sound great with good technique and recording environment. Unless you're playing live, or you live in a third-world country, the bottleneck is skill, not equipment.
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Found where you stole that shitty hypothesis from you fucking retard
the bottleneck is clout
Spend 10000 hours picking guitar chords or post selfies on Instagram. So few people choose the former.
>Capitalism is destroying the independent artist because it's become financially impossible to be an independent artist.
No it isn't. You can still be an artist and make music interdependently. Capitalism is not stopping you. If what you mean is making money off of music you create as a primary source of income is infeasible in the information era, I'd like to hear the thought process of government centralization being the answer
>dude we live in a society bro
Fuck off pinko faggot
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>t. Faggot who uses stupidly pretentious language on a Mongolian throat singing forum
>faggot that uses dead memes
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