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All right.

Hey, what's up everybody?

My name is Brent, your host of the LJS podcast, and welcome to episode 34, where today I'm

going to be talking about something that a lot of people actually

consider controversial. I'm basing this talk today off of a blog post that I did a few years ago

that really made some waves on the internet, and it was greeted with lots of praise, but I also got

some hate mail over it. So today's show should be interesting. And the

topic today is how playing gigs for free, for no compensation, is actually destroying the

music economy. And there's a lot of things I'm going to talk about that in particular. Before we

dive into this today, I just want to invite you if you haven't

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