Notices by jamie hill🏴‍☠️ (hilljam@mastodon.social), page 2

"If you’ve ever wondered why it feels like work is taking control of your mind, your emotions, and your conscience – well, that’s the subjective experience of being commodified. You are slicing up your consciousness and selling pieces of it to survive."

just read this in @annaleen's email from today, and, fuck 😂😳

fascinating (and gorgeous!) chart showing the evolution of recorded-music revenue over the last 50 years

the first thing that jumps out at me is how much smaller the overall pie is post-streaming. the streaming services and major labels have successfully managed a) to dramatically devalue recorded music and b) to put a much larger percentage of it directly into their own pockets. it's one of the single biggest upward transfers of wealth in history — from artists to billionaire corporations

🚨 NEW 80s kids SONG IS LIVE 🚨

"The Boys of Summer" — as originally recorded by Don Henley

we hope you love listening to it as much as we loved making it.

that @shannoncurtis vocal though 🔥🔥🔥

https://shannoncurtis.bandcamp.com/track/the-boys-of-summer

❤️

QUESTION FOR EUROPEAN FRIENDS:

@shannoncurtis and i are thinking about playing some shows over there FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER perhaps this fall 😱

we're thinking scandinavia, berlin, paris, amsterdam. open to other places also!

who on here might be able to connect us with a good show?

the music, if you're not already familiar, is synthpop, with a synchronized video show: https://songwhip.com/shannoncurtis/good-to-me

🖤🖤

@evan i am SO CURIOUS about the people who are saying “very unimportant.” trolling culture is virtually nonexistent here so far, so, like … are they just really not paying any attention whatsoever? or is it a weirdly translated cry for help borne of psychic trauma and denial, a poll-reply version of screaming “i’m not owned” into the void? genuinely very curious what the dynamic is there.