{"id":16951,"date":"2018-10-26T14:02:27","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T18:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=16951"},"modified":"2018-11-13T17:31:49","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T22:31:49","slug":"soundclouds-new-artist-contract-is-a-raw-deal-for-musicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2018\/10\/soundclouds-new-artist-contract-is-a-raw-deal-for-musicians\/","title":{"rendered":"SoundCloud\u2019s new artist contract is a raw deal for musicians"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As if musicians EVER get a good deal. Why is the recording and streaming industry such a piece of shit to the artists who make it possible, by creating the music? It’s almost like America being a fuckhead to the refugees and immigrants that built it…it makes ZERO sense.
\nThat’s not true…it’s perfectly logical. It’s just the wealthy and powerful asshats exploiting everyone else…as usual. Come on, SoundCloud. You can do better.<\/p>\n

The Article ‘SoundCloud\u2019s new artist contract is a raw deal for musicians’ originally appeared on https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2018\/10\/26\/17968694\/soundcloud-new-artist-contract-indie-musicians-label<\/a>
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As if musicians EVER get a good deal. Why is the recording and streaming industry such a piece of shit to the artists who make it possible, by creating the music? It’s almost like America being a fuckhead to the refugees and immigrants that built it…it makes ZERO sense. That’s not true…it’s perfectly logical. It’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[582,586,590,589,565,587,588,585,591,456],"tags":[593,597,596,96,598,594,595,592,523,33],"class_list":["post-16951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-2","category-editorial-2","category-imho","category-imo","category-jamiegray","category-moregray","category-myopinion","category-opinion-3","category-sharedlink","category-jamie-gray","tag-editorial","tag-imho-blogger","tag-imo","tag-jamiegray","tag-link","tag-moregray","tag-myopinion","tag-opinion","tag-blog","tag-jamie-gray"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16860,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2018\/10\/soundcloud-finally-lets-more-musicians-monetize-four-years-later\/","url_meta":{"origin":16951,"position":0},"title":"SoundCloud finally lets more musicians monetize four years later","date":"October 9, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"SoundCloud is trying to become relevant again? 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