Seeing this spreadsheet just made me feel like The Grampa here. Kinda funny, really. It's been a while since I've produced music with the intent of pursuing an audience. Uploading to SoundCloud typically results in an immediate <3 from somebody I don't know, with a nickname that looks like the title of an old Autechre track, followed by an invitation to play a game behind a link in exchange for many views and promotion of my music. Bots, bots, and more bots. I wonder what sort of changes SoundCloud will be introducing after their privacy policy switches up on May 17th. Any ideas?
Also: Thank you Dave (Carpe Sonum) for purchasing a copy of the album. Your reworking of the "Eyesuck" cover artwork made me chuckle. Getting an email from Bandcamp stating "Cha-ching!" was cool, until I learned that they took a tiny bit over 50% of what you'd donated. Bizarre, the way these music service providers provide the service of making content available without doing much to assist content creators with making a living from them.
I won't turn David Lowery vs. The Internet here, but a guy has to ask: What is it that motivates me to create and put music out there? If it's not an outright theft like Jason perpetrated, it's a compromise of sorts, leaving one feeling that "somebody just earned more by selling my work than I did."
The work of art in the age of post-mechanical reproduction.
Thanks to everyone who cares to make time to listen, I suppose.