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+title = "Let me buy your stuff"
+author = ["Michał Sapka"]
+date = 2024-02-14T16:08:00+01:00
+categories = ["blog"]
+draft = false
+weight = 2001
+abstract = "Stream-only is not an option"
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+I don't think many artists[^fn:1] 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:2]
+-   Jimmy Garrison: dead since the 70s
+-   McCoy Tyner: dead since 2020[^fn:2]
+
+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 [Ambrose Akinmusire](https://www.ambroseakinmusire.com/). I've bought both of his albums available on [Bandcamp](https://ambroseakinmusire.bandcamp.com/), 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).
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+So, please: if you create any form of art, consider direct sale.
+Spotify, steam[^fn:3], 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:1]: I respect you too much to use the word "content".
+[^fn:2]: 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:3]: Vide my article on [Digital Ownership](/articles/digital-ownership/).
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