The @guardian asked me for my expanded thoughts on @jamesblake's artist-specific music subscription platform Context: I work on @supercollector_ taking a different approach, but striving for a comparable outcome, which of course I mention theguardian.com/music/2024/mar…
FWIW @jamesblake I would love to sit down and have a long chat about it, share our motivations and aspirations, pick holes in my ideas, get to somewhere that changes the naysayers’ minds and builds something music fans vibe with ✌️
@Tom_Vek @guardian @jamesblake @supercollector_ Very interesting piece Tom. With @supercollector_ is the content purely digital? I’m a vinyl collector and so go out of my way to support artists when it comes to physical media, but regardless of where people stand, it’s a conversation that definitely needs to be happening 👍
@Tom_Vek @guardian @jamesblake @supercollector_ Shot down an ok idea to shill a worse one - $10 for a digital track is the real fantasy. Further, super fans can already get cred for owning music on Bandcamp. SC seemingly offers nothing new. If Vaults reduced their sub to $1-2/month I’d be all over it. As would many others.
@Tom_Vek @guardian @jamesblake @supercollector_ Great writeup, Tom! The fact that they used 'Vault' as the name knowing very well of @vaultmusichq blew my mind.
@Tom_Vek @guardian @jamesblake @supercollector_ my 2 cents for vault : - lack of shareability also means exclusiveness / privilege membership - price going up with many subs : price could be decreasing with a max of say 5-10 subscriptions - Content pressure : not that bad, its unreleased / works in progress / live versions
@Tom_Vek @guardian @jamesblake @supercollector_ There definitely needs to be a solution for the artist to get more from what they create. The streaming era has just seen the artists getting less and the labels more. And the way music is consumed now has definitely turned more into a commodity. I switched from Spotify to Tidal-