[envy2]

I think you're misunderstanding the economic reality of the modern music business for labels. They make their money off streams, not people "buying" music; they have no real incentive to let people stream music for free as a 'promotion.'

Bands make their money off merch, and to a lesser extent, live shows.

[khalilravanna]

I also stream the music. The point is a mix is not a medium for listening to one song. It’s a medium for listening to a set of songs mixed together. Sometimes you only get 1 or 2 minutes of a 8/9 minute non-Radio-Edit of a track.

To be fair, playing devil’s advocate I do know some people who only listen to streams of DJs. I guess the question is what’s the breakdown of people who do that. My guess is it’s a very small margin. And even if it were more sizable, are those people really gonna go off and go buy individual Drum And Bass tracks or whatever off Beatport? I would doubt it.

The end result is it feels like they cannibalizing or cauterizing off a potential market and generating more bad will.