[Ntrails]

I partially agree.

I simply don't accept the complaints over people not coming to see the live shows. If people don't care enough to come out and pay to see you perform, it seems to me the answer is more likely that the artist is insufficiently popular to fill the venue - which I assume in principle was profitable given a certain level of attendance.

However, CD sales pay a hell of a lot more per play per track than 0.06 cents. According to my maths[0] for an album (songs ~4 mins long) you'd have to spend 1000 hours listening to make the same $10 as a sale. However, is this not how radios have paid artists for years? Now we get to listen to what we actually like

[0] (10/0.0006)*(4/60) =~ 1111