14th July
Nigel Godrich on twitter http://twitter.com/nigelgod
“Anyway. Here’s one. We’re off of spotify.. Can’t do that no more man..
Small meaningless rebellion.”
“Someone gotta say something. It’s bad for new music..”
“This is just eraser and amok and ultraista..”
“The reason is that new artists get paid fuck all with this model.. It’s an equation that just doesn’t work”
“The music industry is being taken over by the back door.. and if we don’t try and make it fair for new music producers and artists…”
“..then the art will suffer. Make no mistake. These are all the same old industry bods trying to get a stranglehold on the delivery system..”
“The numbers don’t even add up for spotify yet.. But it’s not about that.. It’s about establishing the model which will be extremely valuable”
“Meanwhile small labels and new artists can’t even keep their lights on. It’s just not right”
“Plus people are scared to speak up or not take part as they are told they will lose invaluable exposure if they don’t play ball. Meanwhile..”
“Millions of streams gets them a few thousand dollars.. Not like radio at all..”
“Anyway. Thems the breaks. Opinions welcome.. but discussion and new thinking necessary.. If you have a massive catalogue - a major label…”
“..for example.. then you’re quids in. It’s money for old rope.. But making new recorded music needs funding.. Some records can be made in ..”
“.. a laptop, but some need musician and skilled technicians.. These things cost money.. Pink floyds catalogue has already generated billions”
“.. of dollars for someone(not necessarily the band) so now putting it on a streaming site makes total sense.. But if people had been ..”
“..listening to spotify instead of buying records in 1973… I doubt very much if dark side would have been made.. It would just be too ..”
“..expensive. Anyway thumbs hurting now… ;)”
“I think the point is - that streaming suits catalogue.. But cannot work as a way of supporting new artists work.. Spotify and the like ..”
“..either have to address that fact and change the model for new releases or else all new music producers should be bold and vote with..”
“..their feet. They have no power without new music..”
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Thom Yorke on twitter http://twitter.com/thomyorke
“Make no mistake new artists you discover on #Spotify will no get paid. meanwhile shareholders will shortly being rolling in it. Simples.”
““your small meaningless rebellion is only hurting your fans … a drop in the bucket really” No we’re standing up for our fellow musicians”
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15th July
Thom Yorke on twitter http://twitter.com/thomyorke
“for me In Rainbows was a statement of trust .people still value new music ..that’s all we’d like from Spotify. don’t make us the target.”
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Nigel Godrich on twitter http://twitter.com/nigelgod
“Thanks for all the comments received about the streaming/spotify model issue. I would say its about 70% positive and supportive 10% negative”
“and 20% confused..”
“So Spotify say they have generated $500 million dollars for ‘license holders".”
“The way that spotify works is that the money is divided up by percentage of total streams.”
“Big labels have massive back catalogues so their 40 year old record by a dead artist earns them the same slice of the pie as…”
“..a brand new track by a new artist.”
“The big labels did secret deals with spotify and the like in return for favourable royalty rates.”
“The massive amount of catalogue being streamed guarantees that they get the big massive slice of the pie (that $500 million) and …”
“the smaller producers and labels get pittance for their comparitavely few streams..”
“This is whats wrong. Catalogue and new music cannot be lumped in together.”
“The model massively favours the larger companies with big catalogues.”
“They need new the new artists to be on the system to guarantee new subscribers and lock down the “new landscape".”
“This is how they figure they’ll make money in the future. But the model pays pittance to the new artist right now.”
“An inconvenient fact which will keep coming up..”
“I feel a responsibility to speak up when I see something going on which I think is unfair. I’m not bitching about not getting paid.”
“It’s about standing up for other artists rights.”
“It’s up to streaming providers to come back with a better way of supporting new music producers..”
“It’s not for us to think up how it could work.. That’s your department. Over..
That’s all I gotta say really. Sorry for the rant.”
“Actually one more thing. Read this …..
http://pitchfork.com/features/articles/8993-the-cloud/ ”
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