No doubt the audiences are smaller – the music lover has 100% control over his/her listening experience – so for the artist, reaching a mass audience on the kind of scale we’ve seen over the last few decades may not be possible anymore. (unless you’re Radiohead… but even then…)

It’s a double-edged sword. On one side you get this democratization, the leveling of the playing field which allows credible artists to build (and control) a career with only their talent and a laptop, but on the other side, there are zero dollars for mass-marketing, billboards, radio commercials, physical distribution etc.

I think more people will be able to make a living from their music than before. Just a little less bling. Okay, a whole lotta less bling.

Congrats on the t-shirts by the way… oh I mean awards… sorry, where do I get a t-shirt again?