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"people just don't seek out music anymore and that's why spotify is such a vital service in helping artists get discovered and paid"

hey. buddy. listen 2 me. my fixation on the band sElf is because twenty seconds of a song of theirs was backing a monster hunter world gameplay clip someome posted to a now-dead twitter account. A hand-curated music playlist for a VRChat world I accidentally typo'd my way into introduced me to Superorganism's "It's All Good" a few years ago. Crumb's two albums Jinx and Ice Melt are among the highest number of full-album playthroughs in my library because i caught a shitty recording of Locket playing in-car over a snippet of someone's dash cam footage audio that was lifted for a youtube clip compilation channel someone else runs. back in 2011 my high school forced my entire grade to watch an anti-bullying PSA that ran on for 40 minutes but the credits had Dabrye's "Making It Pay" playing over it and that set me on the path to exploring all of Ghostly International's available music releases i could get my paws on at the time.

like. i've discovered music in the most obtuse places, often via the most unlicensed conduits those tunes could've possibly accompanied, and i can say with one hundred percent sincerity that the $9 i've spent just once on a digital album or two so i could listen to it again and again has probably put more food on the table of these musicians than spotify's "minimum one thousand streams annually per-song before payouts" discovery playback ever could achieve across a decade for many of these folks. i promise this isn't a brag, I just don't know how else to explain that spotify really isn't the only viable path forward when music permeates every facet of this world and all you have to do is take note when something catches your ear. the only thing truly making it harder to discover new music is licensing restrictions, automated Content-ID matching, and the universal/sony/warner music trio regularly leveraging both of the former to ensure your favorite song has an expiration date by tamping down on all of this, and unless you can hunt down a copy to save locally, a time will come when you'll never be able to hear that favorite song again. this isn't a threat; you and me both are going to outlive this service, as we've outlived many other online-only services before it.

(and i say this with complete sincerity to those not in a financially viable place to buy albums on the reg: just slurp the .wav off youtube homie. compared to spotify, the net gain to the individual artist is exactly the same. who knows, maybe you'll be able to inadvertently pass it along to someone else who's able to go and make that purchase, as others have unknowingly done to me. word of mouth alone is a /very/ powerful discovery tool)

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attack 35 for @crashlapine / @rabbitebooks !!

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this game is constantly playing pranks on me

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hi, this is my roommate's fund for us being able to get a new house. we're a group of multiple trans people facing eviction due to high rent and a multiperson struggle with sudden illness. we're trying our best to move to a new place

more info in the gofundme itself. sorry

please, if you can send in anything, please do.

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listening

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$1500 behind on rent.

we've been working to try and catch up, of course, i'm not expecting to cover all of it here, but please help if you can.

https://ko-fi.com/automated_system

https://cash.app/$twilightsparkleirl

https://paypal.me/syntheticgarden

i'm really trying my hardest.

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voice training to sound like the mechanical intercom in a facility long-abandoned by human life

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background attempt

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lamp ref "it is me it's my sona"

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smells like sunshine

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it sucks that the backrooms and by extent liminal spaces turned out the way they did in popular culture. i love dreamy places not because they're full of Scary Screatures or whatever but because they're fun and interesting and cool and a perfect place for a girl like me to lay her eggs

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yeah great

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Peep this

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send this to your ex with no context

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ink cap magician who loves alcohol and is a loser and enjoys causing Problems using familiars drawn up with magic ink (which he can also turn himself into... magic ink slime). and also he is in a one-sided rivalry against Elixir (sorry to you Bane, but senpai doesn't notice you)