Cheap Music Streaming Makes Me Want to Write Fiction Instead

Confession of an evolving, uncertain creative

I’ve always been a creative in general. I have a habit (not sure if it’s a bad one) of obsessing over one creative activity at a time, and then slowly getting bored or frustrated with it, and then transitioning onto another.

Most recently, I’ve been in a music phase. I’ve learned a bunch of new cover songs, improved my guitar playing and singing some, and released a bunch of original music in 2019.

And as 2020 comes rolling around the corner, I feel… discouraged in that department.

You Don’t Buy Music, You Buy Access To Streaming Technology

Nowadays, you’re generally not buying a physical CD or anything like that anymore. You’re buying a digital recording to download through the internet. It’s just information now.

And like any information technology, its been getting exponentially easier and cheaper for music to stream. Like, all of my effort put into a song will make me less than one cent per stream.

And from the buyer’s perspective, honestly why would we actually buy music? I know I’m whining about it, but I too listen to music almost exclusively on Spotify. Or YouTube.