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Taylor Swift Exits Spotify

“Taylor Swift Pulls Her Music From Spotify” This is about money. Not in the album, that’s bupkes compared to the tour! In other words, Taylor Swift is not selling a million plus albums this week to get rich on the sales, but to get rich on the penumbra. I.e. the tours, the endorsements, all the […]

Netflix vs. Spotify

Once upon a time television was like radio, something you received over the air for free via an antenna. But in the eighties, TV moved to a subscription model, people paid for cable, for a better picture and more and better programming. So, customers became inured to paying a subscription fee, every month, in perpetuity. […]

The Spotify Payments Fracas

The artists are ignorant and Spotify is clueless. I feel like I have to be the lone voice in the wilderness, the correction factor, to all the b.s. strewn by the artist community, because Spotify has no cojones and sent in the B team as opposed to Daniel Ek. That’s right, kids who are thrilled […]

The Bendable iPhone 6

GM recalls a plethora of cars, will it only be minutes until Apple recalls the complete run of iPhone 6 and 6 Plus? Corporations… That’s why you can’t trust ’em, they’re only in it for the money. Where’s Frank Zappa when you need him? We bend over backward to lionize these enterprises with no center […]