The pleasure is to play....does it matter what you get paid?

Today's podcast looks back at the history of record contracts, over 100 years ago and asks were musicians back then paid more for their work than streaming does now? was the music industry the canary in the coalmine, the first example of 'You will own nothing and be happy' ideal along with piracy and digital streaming and is it just another example of the hollowing out of the middle class?

Find out

Apologies for the AI Art....I couldn't resist this one

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