Acts that are not on Spotify

Like, it isnt even worth it. With the vinyl they probably at least break even for most of their acts.

It's better than receiving $0.00 from mp3 pirates.

If Spotify is still at the half penny per stream payment rate, the equivalent of a million selling, ten-track album at ten average plays per album would mean $500,000 in income with zero overhead.

I mean, I realize that's only 50 cents per album, but maybe the rates will go up if Spotify is able to generate more revenue. Or maybe they won't - maybe that's just a new model.

• The Necks

If you're more likely to buy music if you pirate music (which seems to be the case, right?) and its also true that if you listen to Spotify then you're less likely to buy music (is that true? I'm sure I read somewhere it was) then maybe Drag City have made the call that its better for the bottom line to stay away.

i still find pirating music to be kind of a pain in the ass and in most cases not worth it, especially as a music-discovery tool. you have to do a google search, find some blog that still has working links to the mp3s, then go to some ad-ridden torrent or bullshit MEGAUPLOAD site, download your files, etc. so since drag city doesn't have a relatively easy way to discover its music, the less likely i'm going to take time to explore their artists (and then later go buy their albums). easier discovery of music, for me, means more new music i'm going to listen to (obviously), and the more new music i hear, the more i'm going to buy music.

like i'm not going to spend time pirating some minor bonnie prince billy record to see if i should buy it. it just seems tedious. more likely, i'm just not going hear it until there is an easier way to spend enough time with the album to help me decide it i should buy it.

Run the Jewels was a free mixtape, probably some sample clearance issues keeps it off Spottty.

Run The Jewels is also in record shops on CD fwiw

ah, probably a free download for a spell and then released physically?

man i swear i think run the jewels was on there at one point cuz it kept recommending it to me

Just noticed that the Boards of Canada catalog is now on US Spotify

Cool thx.

Blimey they're finally adding Zeppelin - one album per day by the looks of things.

aphrodite's child

more Zep info, article is really mostly abt Spotify though

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/12/business/media/spotify-said-to-secure-exclusive-deal-with-led-zeppelin.html?hp&_r=0

When credible rivals to Spotify start appearing we're going to see labels taking their stuff off en-masse as they start signing exclusive deals.

Do you really think so? Labels didn't ever exclusivey sell their physical products with just one chain, did they? I mean outside of a limited edition or something. Maybe some material will be exclusively with a streaming service for a period of time but not in perpetuity. The labels make more money spreading it all around.

The Necks
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Friday, October 11, 2013 12:09 AM (2 months ago)

tier newest one is up and i highly recommend it-- might be my AOY

Entire Zep catalog on there now

Most of the Peter Gabriel albums are on in the US now, I just noticed.

woah that is excellent news

early sabbath also finally

sweet! I updated my 70s Hard 'n' Heavy playlist from last year's big 70s countdown

yeah it ruined this year's ilm poll for me cuz there's not alot there that isn't gonna get blown away by anything on vol. 4.

Most of the Peter Gabriel albums are on in the US now, I just noticed.

early sabbaths always been available in uk. Wonder why it took so long for usa. Bigger market they actually sell cds in?

Funkadelic's WB records aren't on Spotify but are on MOG for some reason.

elliott smith added.

all the more recent Prince albums but based on sampling 'em doesn't seem like I'm missing out on much

why is Lovesexy just one long track?

that's how prince released it, it's the same way on cd

the copy I got has 'em separated. Which is good since I like five songs and that'd be a pain

Yeah I found a cue sheet online on some prince board and split mine into tracks with it. Only time I've ever done anything like that.

The Necks
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Friday, October 11, 2013 12:09 AM (2 months ago)

tier newest one is up and i highly recommend it-- might be my AOY

― |$̲̅(̲̅ιοο̲̅)̲̅$̲̅| (gr8080), Thursday, 12 December 2013 6:35 AM (2 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Hmmm ... I'm in Australia, and I can only find one Necks track (on a comp) on Spotify. :-(

The Coil selection is meagre (relative to their output!), but I guess there are legal complexities there.

Also, no Comsat Angels.

Weirdly, there's stuff on Spotify mobile I can get with no trouble, but it ain't there when I'm on the PC

And yeah,the Necks in Aus are unavailable

t rex

gah n/m, there's t rex t. rex, t.rex

Looks like the whole(?) Numero catalogue is up now!

I noticed last night that The Kinks' 60s catalog is now on there.

Yeah that was a nice surprise

Though actually the nice surprise for me wasn't the 60s stuff - most of which I own - but the ability to explore all the post-Lola stuff without spending money

yeah, it just took a lot longer for the earlier stuff to show up

was everything post-lola there until now? i thought there was just a handful of kinks before now - that the 60s classics showed up with more of the 70s & 80s as well. but anyway, yeah, glad the kinks are more explorable in general.

There was a point previously when a lot of the old Kinks releases were on there, then much of it was taken off. Glad they're back.

oh hey did the RVNG catalogue just show up?

nice!!

Owen Ashworth's catalog (Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, Advance Base) has been missing from Spotify for about a year, but this morning I saw he wrote a feature for Tidal promoting his record, so I guess it's on there. Must be an anti-Spotify thing a la Taylor Swift?

Wish Drag City would break and go streaming, at some point the revenue curve has gotta bend as more and more people go streaming only and artists on the label go increasingly off the radar and out of the cultural conversation. I would even pay $5/month for an all-DC streaming service, which is $60 more a year they're getting from me now just bc I don't want to hassle with files.

Missing the Felt catalogue, Comsat Angels, and big chunks of Momus, hope to see 'em show up someday.