Pallas - The Messenger : out now!

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 MikeEnRegalia wrote:

^ I think the problem is that some artists expect to record an album and then be able to live on the income generated by people listening to that recording (either directly by listening via streaming or indirectly by purchasing a copy). That does not work except for a handful of extremely popular artists, simply because there is not enough money and/or listening going on in the world compared to the number of releases we listen to.
I have listened to 250+ releases of 2023 in full. Had I purchased all of them, that would have cost me about $2000. Hypothetically, in a world without streaming services or illegal downloads, The alternative would have been that I purchase a fraction of these releases (say, about 20) and then listen more to those.  

That's the thing: In the old days (say 1980s/90s) we were buying fewer records and listened more to them (a model which Pallas seems to cater to), whereas today we are used to having access to more albums for the same money (My Spotify fees amount to about 10 albums per year). We still listen to the same amount/volume of music, but by more bands.

This is very pertinent especially the last paragraph. Also everything was released on vinyl until CD sales really took off (late eighties?). CD then could easily be ripped into computers at which point we got more hooked on the idea of streaming at the click of a mouse and not having to spend 10 minutes rummaging around looking for a bloody CD. I'm not down on what I see as natural evolution but somehow we have a weird situation where tons of bands are getting paid nothing but still somehow keeping putting music out. It's a hobby surely? Even for bands such as IQ which are well established I'm fairly sure they weren't living off their album sales even back in the late 90's and early 00's before streaming took hold. Pallas are at least one league below IQ.