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 #+TITLE: Blog
 #+AUTHOR: Michał Sapka
-#+URL: https://michal.sapka.me/star-trek
+#+URL: https://michal.sapka.me/blog/
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+** DONE Let me buy your stuff
+CLOSED: [2024-02-14 Wed 16:08]
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+I don't think many artists[fn:artists] visit my site, but no can can stop me from pledging you.
+
+Musicians, writers, game developers. Please, let me buy your stuff.
+Preferably /directly/ from you.
+
+The only streaming I pay for is YouTube, and I want to drop it as well soon.
+This means I am getting my dose of media locally.
+From /files/ and /audio players/, like a gentleman.
+
+Now, this gives me two options: high seas or purchasing.
+
+Most of the artist I listen to are long dead.
+And this makes the problem easy: I have no moral problem with simply downloading the stuff without any care for copyright.
+If there is some new translation or the offer is good - sure.
+But, looking at /A Love Supreme/:
+- Coltrane: dead since the 60s
+- Elvin Jones: dead since 2004[fn:props]
+- Jimmy Garrison: dead since the 70s
+- McCoy Tyner: dead since 2020[fn:props]
+The album itself was released almost 60 years ago.
+That's a lot longer than I am even alive!
+
+But there are also new, young, and very much alive artists.
+Just recently I've been listening to [[https://www.ambroseakinmusire.com/][Ambrose Akinmusire]]. I've bought both of his albums available on [[https://ambroseakinmusire.bandcamp.com/][Bandcamp]], and they are amazing.
+I can't recommend Owl Song enough!
+
+But that's just a portion of his work.
+The rest is available only on streaming of by importing CD from the USA.
+The first option is a *strong no* for me, as I respect artists too much to just participate in their destruction.
+The other is acceptable, but the shipping costs are high (there's also the Amazon problem, but it's nothing compared to streaming).
+
+So, please: if you create any form of art, consider direct sale.
+Spotify, steam[fn:steam], netflix, amazon - those are not the only options.
+I'm not saying to abandon them, as it would be crazy.
+We're not in the good timeline after all.
+But let me buy it as well!
+I /will/ buy it and, as a result, give you more money from a single album than it's physically possible using Spotify.
+
+[fn:artists] I respect you too much to use the word "content".
+[fn:props] Mad respect for living such a long jazz-filled life.
+When you read biographies of the Great Cats of the Past you learn that long lifespan is not something that comes from life on road... and drugs.
+[fn:steam] Vide my article on [[/articles/digital-ownership/][Digital Ownership]].
 ** DONE Terry Pratchett's Interesting Times
 CLOSED: [2024-02-13 Tue 21:06]
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