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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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[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 5 days ago

Nothing says "rock and roll" like commodifying art in order to extract every last bit of value from it.

[-] outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 days ago

And people give me shit when i say I won't pay for music (files) anymore.

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