{"id":7332,"date":"2013-06-20T15:32:05","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T23:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/?p=7332"},"modified":"2013-06-20T15:32:50","modified_gmt":"2013-06-20T23:32:50","slug":"e-mail-of-the-day-46","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/2013\/06\/20\/e-mail-of-the-day-46\/","title":{"rendered":"E-Mail Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Hi Bob,<\/p>\n<p>Music &#8216;big business&#8217; is slowly looking-sounding-smelling-feeling as appealing as Wall Street and\/or the Vatican. (Maybe less smart and less &#8220;touchy-feely&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>My dilemma: I want people to stream my music all day long (to their hearts content); but, I&#8217;m tired of watching the Daniel Ek&#8217;s and the Mark Westerthefuck&#8217;s buy new monstertruckairplanes and diamond studded ethnic babies.(tis the sheer principle of the matter)<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not the money I make the art for, OR the other way around. I make art for the love of art and for the pleasure of creating something myself the only way I know how.<\/p>\n<p>We have been tempted to pull THE USED material from all platforms but our own; \u00c2\u20ac\u00c2\u201dbut what does this accomplish? (&#8220;Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious. a la \u00c2\u20ac\u00c2\u201d1984) Without the artist there is no business of art; yet, so many willing to play (play dead, maybe) that if you don&#8217;t, you&#8217;re trampled.<\/p>\n<p>In all probability, it will be the artists who end up make it fair for the artists again somehow&#8230; but how?\u00c2\u00a0 I value your opinion (most of the time), so some input would be great!<\/p>\n<p>Love, Bert<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Bob, Music &#8216;big business&#8217; is slowly looking-sounding-smelling-feeling as appealing as Wall Street and\/or the Vatican. (Maybe less smart and less &#8220;touchy-feely&#8221;) My dilemma: I want people to stream my music all day long (to their hearts content); but, I&#8217;m tired of watching the Daniel Ek&#8217;s and the Mark Westerthefuck&#8217;s buy new monstertruckairplanes and diamond [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-business"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p96vPs-1Ug","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7332"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7336,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7332\/revisions\/7336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}