Welcome to another bonus episode of the Tech Mem Right Home, I'm Brian McCullough.

Do you remember that piece that I did?

It might have been a long read, it might not have been about the economics of Spotify

and music streaming generally and how the way things are structured right now, there's no way

for a quote middle-class artist to thrive

If you pay your ten dollars a month to Spotify some percentage of that is going to Justin Bieber whether you listen to him or not

That piece really stuck with me because of the implications it had for artists generally as we moved to this subscription for

everything future so I called up the ringers Victor Luckerson who wrote

the piece to talk about this because there are a lot of reasons why the current

model could and should be improved. Aside from the economics, there are also questions of playfraud and even

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