KIRBY'S TOWER OF BABEL IS TIPPING OVER

@dontdisturbmyslumber

girl where are we headed

any except for she/her or it/its

i dont have much to say here honestly. i mostly listen to albums that are fed to me by youtube. i try to keep people updated to interesting stuff i listen to but often im just rewatching videos. i complain and gush about kirby sometimes (a lot an abnormal amount), especially the mopupu manga. my life is a wreck which is a majority of my posts. i dont recommend following unless you uhhh like my thoughts or love hearing about kirby. im a major btw, not a minor. trans masc, bi, tme, mexican in the usa.

KIRBY'S TOWER OF BABEL IS TIPPING OVER @dontdisturbmyslumber3/19/2024, 3:10 AM

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Lex @Lexfeathers3/18/2024, 9:47 PM

so I got really mad about DSPs (spotify et al) last night

and then in an unusual wave of productivity I finished a whole EP I've been stalling on, made the artwork, and finally set up a webstore¹ to sell my music directly without revshare.

I'm lucky to have work connections that allow me stuff like said storefront for free, but I'm just so angry about how many middlemen there are between every musician and their listeners.
You make pennies from streaming, distros (a la distrokid) take a cut, and bandcamp takes 15% (save for on bandcamp fridays). Touring, which used to be The Way, will break you. Shows are a great opportunity for small artists to get ripped off by promoters who don't even do their jobs, and now we're seeing venue merch cuts in the cold light of day.

Anyway it's so fucking hard to be a professional musician in late stage capitalism, and I'm not even one who relies on music for her main source of income.

^{1 https://shop.voidfemmes.ca}