Erik L. Midtsveen 🏴🏳️🌈<p>✏️ Nobody will read this, but I just wanted to vent for once and have a post like this out there because I needed to write it somewhere.</p><p>🩷 It still brings me so much joy that Zoë Straub remains my top artist—a fact that's been true since, May 14, 2016; yes, that date is etched in my soul. </p><p>🙄 She is signed to Global Rockstar, her father's record label, and Global Rockstar used to be okay in my book, but when they started selling NFTs, I just went insane, ya know, in a 'makes me question everything' kind of way.</p><p>🤦 CEO Christof Straub explained that NFTs can help artists monetize content, build stronger fan engagement, and make processes more efficient. Straub also claimed that NFTs allow for higher artist royalties compared to streaming.</p><p>🚫 If I didn't make it clear, I hate NFTs as much as everyone else does. </p><p>💽 Since she primarily releases on capitalist garbage like Spotify and Apple Music, I'm left digging for her new releases in used markets like Discogs, eBay, and local shops. Alternatively, there's always the reliable, slightly less ethical option of using yt-dlp once the tracks appear on YouTube.</p><p>⭐ Zoë Straub remains my top artist to this day, and back on August 20, 2021, I had over 20,196 plays of Zoë Straub, totaling 58,086 minutes, as seen in screenshots I have left from stats.fm before I deleted my account on the capitalist garbage named Spotify.</p><p>📈 I've probably tripled those numbers in the past four years, but today, I don't track my music listening habits as I used to; it's annoying and dumb.</p><p>- <a href="https://zoe-official.com" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">zoe-official.com</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br>- <a href="https://www.globalrockstar.com" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">globalrockstar.com</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br>- <a href="https://youtu.be/wnQiw4e02g8" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/wnQiw4e02g8</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/ZoeStraub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ZoeStraub</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/MusicObsession" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MusicObsession</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/AntiNFTs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AntiNFTs</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/NFTs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NFTs</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Music</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/DeleteTheApp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DeleteTheApp</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Statsfm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Statsfm</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Dumb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dumb</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/GlobalRockstar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GlobalRockstar</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/CapitalistGarbage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CapitalistGarbage</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/MusicIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MusicIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/AntiCapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AntiCapitalism</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Spotify" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Spotify</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Discogs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Discogs</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/eBay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>eBay</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/ytdlp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ytdlp</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/MusicCollection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MusicCollection</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/RecordDigging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RecordDigging</span></a></p>