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Your Favorite Songs Are Wall Street’s Latest Investment (jacobin.com)

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The growing popularity of the “Bowie” bond — a security backed by royalties — may sound strange, but it’s nothing new. In treating songs like annuities, capitalists prove once again that nothing is too sacred, or silly, to be commodified.

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[-] b_tr3e@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago

I've got plenty of altermatives. I just can't always avoid exposition to radio emissions. A trip across half of Europe this month with the fucking car "entertainment" system not recognizing any of my thumb drives and USB-SSDs was experience enough to be reminded to all the songs I had hoped to never have to hear again.