{"id":1982,"date":"2015-04-14T19:30:03","date_gmt":"2015-04-14T19:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=1982"},"modified":"2015-04-14T19:30:08","modified_gmt":"2015-04-14T19:30:08","slug":"tidal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2015\/04\/tidal\/","title":{"rendered":"Tidal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cAs is the position of the artists on the stage. I\u2019d be much more impressed if they all ankled their deals, got rid of the major labels and went it alone. That\u2019s why they\u2019re not making much money on Spotify, not because of the free tier, but because their <strong>deals suck<\/strong>. But these same deals apply on Tidal! <strong>They\u2019ve got to license the music from their bosses!<\/strong>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/archives\/2015\/03\/30\/tidal\/\" target=\"_blank\">That\u2019s where it hurts<\/a>. Those massive stars don\u2019t own their own music and can\u2019t make money off of it as they\u2019d like to. You might have a shop but you\u2019re still a peon, my friend.<\/p>\n<p>It makes me think of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2015\/03\/27\/our-record-industry-nightmare-unlocking-the-truth-s-journey-from-viral-craze-to-label-hostages.html\" target=\"_blank\">Unlocking the Truth and Sony<\/a>. I hoped they would not fall into this industry mess but they did and they\u2019re already fed up with it.<\/p>\n<p>We have tons of examples from the past century, <em>century<\/em> of how the music business is quite a nasty beast. And yet they offer me $1.8M tomorrow for a couple albums, I don\u2019t really know how I would say no. But then again:<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-dQsUS2qEomg\/VS1m5Y2QPyI\/AAAAAAAABoQ\/XRNrgQhreS8\/s800\/ouch.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Read The Fucking Contract. Resist. Think long term. You signed to get fucked in the end. Classic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAs is the position of the artists on the stage. I\u2019d be much more impressed if they all ankled their deals, got rid of the major labels and went it alone. That\u2019s why they\u2019re not making much money on Spotify, not because of the free tier, but because their deals suck. But these same deals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1983,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982\/revisions\/1983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}