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KMFJD

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Yeah, that stock drop most likely has NOTHING to do with Rogan. It's tied to the overall stock drop that just happened.

The Spotify drop looks identical to the Dow drop.

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You are right, it's not something you can blame solely on Rogan. The companies stock has shown a steady decline for the past year, lost way more than most tech companies in that dip as well.

Joni Mitchell appears to be pulling her music from spotify as well now

 
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ultimatebob

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You are right, it's not something you can blame solely on Rogan. The companies stock has shown a steady decline for the past year, lost way more than most tech companies in that dip as well.

Joni Mitchell appears to be pulling her music from spotify as well now


Bitcoin has also dropped 50% over the past three months as well. Can we blame that on Spotify and Joe Rogan, too?
 

BUTCH1

Lifer
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Me too. And for the record: Rogan's a dick and an asshole, yes he's fucking himself in the asshole. :D I watched one Rogan video, bailed in the middle, done done done with Joe R. It was clear to me he was pandering to his idiot audience, i.e. no integrity, complete sellout.
Agree 1000%, anyone, and I mean anyone who even remotely questions the reality of the Apollo program is both a moron and a disgrace. Calling Neil Armstrong a "liar" should earn you an automatic dick-punch in the USA
 
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IronWing

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OK, sorry then. As an old fart Neil brings back memories like playing "Cinnamon girl" so loud I blew out a speaker in my then AM radio in my crap-box '63 Impala I was driving at the time.
Did you live in my college dorm? There was a guy with 15” woofers who would come back from the bars at 2am and crank, “There is a town in North Ontario…” loud enough to crack windows.
 

Thump553

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A couple of very interesting articles on point. A couple of significant points:

-Spotify pays roughly 70% of it's streaming revenues to musical artists, and far less to podcasters. In an apparent effort to make their business more profitable they have been pouring their investments into the podcast end of the business.

-Many (most?) of the older major stars have sold their entire catalog and publishing rights for large lump sums and no longer have control to do what Neil Young and Joni Mitchell have done.

Why Spotify chose Joe Rogan over Neil Young: It’s not a music company - The Washington Post

There's no money in streaming. - Gabriel Teodros (substack.com)
 
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Zorba

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The better reason to leave Spotify, as a consumer, is that other services pay the artists 2-3x more vs Spotify. Tidal pays 3x more for example. Better quality audio if you have good equipment. Also has a desktop app.

The phone app is quite good, though not as good as Spotify. I have no need for Spotify's podcasts abilities as I have always loved the Podcast Republic app more than anything else for those.
Problem is Spotify is buying up a bunch of pods and making them exclusive. Still not enough to get me to use them, but I've lost one I really enjoyed.
 
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Somebody mentioned the Goof was on NewsRadio, but I couldn't picture him. I looked the show up a while ago, and he was a goofy electrician/handyman that was always spouting nonsense crackpot theories. Was he writing his own material then? Or is someone writing it for him now? Is his schtick all an act?
 

dlerious

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I'm not a pod people and I want to 'program' my own lists. I acquire tracks I want and run lists of 2,000 plus tracks that cover nearly a week at a time. It can be a month from the time I hear a song until it plays again. And only tracks I want, no ads, no talk, no interruptions.
I'm similar. I don't really stream, I prefer to purchase music I like from Bandcamp (or buy CD and rip) and make my own playlists. Takes a little longer to go through 5000 albums. What little streaming I do is generally from Genre specific sites covering new releases.
 
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BUTCH1

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Did you live in my college dorm? There was a guy with 15” woofers who would come back from the bars at 2am and crank, “There is a town in North Ontario…” loud enough to crack windows.
LOL, no, but I had this '72 Matador once, no working AC and in the hot FL summer the bench seats turned into the "vinyl hibachi" and no one wanted to ride in it so I took a pair of home speakers with "12's and put 'em in the back seat, ran them off the Tenna "mind lower" amps and a Sony cassette deck, for what it was it sounded pretty decent, the car was a rolling hazard however, 4 wheel drum brakes, all worn to a nub, master cylinder needed 3-4 pumps before any braking action even started, ball joints all blown, control arm bushings completely missing, tie rod ends as brittle as twigs, but man that stereo!
 
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BUTCH1

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sounds like less of a Matador and more of a Bull.
The Matador was supposed to compete with GM's Impala and Ford's LTD, it did neither very well and wound up being a popular cop car with the 390 police pursuit option, the popular was because it was a lot cheaper.
 

Thump553

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I don't know who India Arie is, but she yanked her stuff off too.

You really should stop bragging you know nothing about XXX musician. Your lack of knowledge/exposure is not a bragging point. India.Aire has put out roughly a dozen top quality and popular albums.
 
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