Comment by 1718627440
3 months ago
If the market is selling music, musicians can sell CDs just fine without Spotify. On performances I went to, nearly everyone has offered buying or ordering CDs, while only a few have told that you can listen to them on Spotify.
And people can communicate without using Facebook, search without using Google etc and they are still considered “Gatekeepers”. And who listens to CDs anymore or even has a CD player in their car or on their computer? How do you get the music on your phone?
I was in Seattle a couple of years ago walking around and someone was selling CDs of their music on the street like it was the early 2000s. WTF am I going to do with a CD?
Do people carry around CD Walkman’s anymore? But you’re not going to be a major artist and get wide appeal or even gain an audience without being on Spotify - more so in Europe than in the US where Apple Music has a larger market share.
Because Facebook and Google insert themself into unrelated websites, their monopoly is not just search.
> And who listens to CDs anymore or even has a CD player in their car or on their computer?
True for computers, but every cheap radio has a CD player and it's very common to have one in the car.
> How do you get the music on your phone?
Ripping them from a CD.
Like I agree CDs are getting less common, but not for sells at a concert. Nobody is going to tell you to use Spotify, because it screams "cheap"! That might fly for hobby musicians, but professionals will ruin their reputation.
> True for computers, but every cheap radio has a CD player and it's very common to have one in the car.
There are only 9 car models as of 2024 that ship with CD players and not even all trims of all of those models come with a CD player
https://www.kron4.com/news/national/which-new-car-models-sti...
And people don’t walk around with boom boxes like in the 80s.
> Ripping them from a CD.
Most new computers don’t come with CD drives and you think that people are syncing music from their computers to their phones in 2025? The last computer I bought with a CD drive was around 2012. Do any of the major PC sellers sell laptops with CD drives? Apple stopped around 2012.
> Because Facebook and Google insert themself into unrelated websites, their monopoly is not just search
> Because Facebook and Google insert themself into unrelated websites, their monopoly is not just search
That has nothing to do with the laws the EU is passing and none of the remedies say anything about it Google Analytics or ads on third party sites.
> Nobody is going to tell you to use Spotify, because it screams "cheap"! That might fly for hobby musicians, but professionals will ruin their reputation.
Well two issues, selling CDs at concerts is a horrible method for mass distribution and CD sales are plummeting.
https://www.headphonesty.com/2025/07/cd-revival-hopes-crash-...
During the past year I’ve been to a dozen concerts. Most of them classic Hip Hop artist, two classic R and B, and two pop - Maroon 5 and Justin Timberlake. I’ve also gone to a see a punk rock band where my friend is the lead singer. They sell merch but definitely not CDs
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