I listened to the podcast, of course.

Yeah, you listen to it, so it's not completely offensive to the British world view.

I'll confess I was not already familiar with your work, but I've listened to a few episodes

since you contacted me and yeah, I can confirm not offensive to the British world view.

Good to know.

Good to know we passed the muster of the Anglo world.

Well, welcome to the Troubili's Everybody.

I am one of your co-hosts, Terrence joined by Mr. Tom Sexton, of course.

Today, we're going to be talking about the music industry.

On this show, we've joked a lot about how easy it is to kind of latch onto a specific data point

or like a story or an anecdote that kind of speaks to the specific kind of hell that we live in,

and for me personally, one that I keep coming back to and obviously the audience and Tom

will have heard me say this about a million times, but it's the story about how all of these

major artists of yesteryear like Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Nicks, Paul Simon,

you name them, all your favorite, Motley Crew, all your favorite hitmakers.

They are now selling portions or all of their song catalogs to either a major label or a quote-unquote

song fund about which we will discuss more in just a second.

I guess maybe the reason why it's so dark and dystopic for me is because I'm a musician.

I don't make a living playing music, obviously, but I do have a lot of friends that do,

and I've just noticed that it's becoming increasingly very difficult to make a living from this

industry, not only because of the hit everyone took in 2020 with the pandemic, but also just because

of what we're going to be discussing today. To help us do that and to help us get a more

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