This is my policy and I will certainly follow it if I am to write a review of the album. One should then, if possible, read around about the artists and find a review of the album, and then ideally listen to the album again. I have always felt that to do the music and the musicians justice and to judge a piece of work, one should sit down and listen to a Cd from beginning to end without interruption. I have done this partly because I know that the musicians will get a fair share of the price paid, especially on the occasional Fridays when Bandcamp pays 100% of the income to the musicians, but also because having the music online makes listening in a slightly different way possible. I have found in this period of lockdown and the current slightly eased lockdown I have become a big fan of Bandcamp and have downloaded a huge amount of music from it. Bandcamp, by contrast, is a business that supports musicians, facilitates their placing music online and enables them to choose their own pricing structure. This leads to a situation in which royalties paid to musicians are incredibly low. Essentially it makes the point that Spotify follows a kind of Starbucks competitive model in that it wants to persuade listeners to spend more time on its streams rather than on other sources for listening for music in the same way that Starbucks aims to replace small neighbourhood cafes. This article is well worth reading, you can access it here.
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