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More, What the WTF, Spotify!
Above: Amelia Fletcher, organizing a postcard-writing campaign to Spotify from the Skep Wax Records office. Ms. Amelia Fletcher is best known for her combos Catenary Wires, Swansea Sound, Heavenly, Marine Research, Tender Trap and soon to be world renown for the record label Skep Wax she helps coordinate. In her real life (where does she find the time?) Ms. Fletcher is an economist, a very good one. According to her biography at the University of East Anglia, "Amelia Fletcher CBE is a Professor of Competition Policy at NBS and Deputy Director at the Centre for Competition Policy. She is...
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The Corporate Ogre and Co.
Above: Bret Lunsford illustrates the conflict of Creativity v. Corporate Ogre, 1984. K has been exploding the teenage underground into passionate revolt against the Corporate Ogre since 1982. In the intervening 40-odd years the music biz has changed muchly, and the underground music scene has flourished. However, the more things change the more they don't: the Corporate Ogre has never been more monolithic, nor threatened the livelihood of independent artists more completely than what we are experiencing today. Last October Spotify, the multinational streaming service that controls a majority of musical content listened to across the planet, announced a...