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Grifters' gonna grift. The streaming indy pop world is toast.

On the other hand, this does seem to be rekindling, at least somewhat, an interest in people going to see small shows of real people making music. Which was historically what music was about for the vast majority of our human history. Mass market pop as a viable business was a particularly 20th century anomaly.

And oddly, in people buying real vinyl by real people.

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