Mastodawn

You ever think how it's weird that insider trading is illegal, but some people made millions of dollars off knowing about a ridiculous post this week?

You ever think how it's weird that housing has doubled in relation to income, but there hasn't been a mass uprising?

I know I do.
😅

Samuel Smith 1d ago

@SrRochardBunson bread and circuses. When they stop, people have time to think. They realize what's going on and riot.
Can't have that! So sports and jobs - I mean - the circuses must continue!

@Jirikiha 💯 I saw a good clown handing out bread cartoon recently but can't find it.

@SrRochardBunson
A secret nationwide RCMP (the federal police force) study showed that people in Canada under 40 might revolt as they realize they will never be able to afford a house and their living standard will be substantially lower than expected
https://thedeepdive.ca/rcmp-warns-of-potential-unrest-as-living-standards-decline-across-canada/

RCMP Warns of Potential Unrest as Living Standards Decline Across Canada | the deep dive

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police has issued a sobering forecast that warns of potential social unrest in the coming years due to declining living standards across Canada. In a highly-redacted internal report titled “Whole-of-Government Five-Year Trends for Canada” (a copy can be accessed here), the national police force highlights how the anticipated economic recession could […]

the deep dive

Virginicus 1d ago

@SrRochardBunson I wonder if young people know there was a time when rock musicians would lose their audience if they appeared in a commercial. When’s the last time anyone used the term “sold out”?

@Virginicus 😅 I wonder. The concept of "selling out" is definitely gone, though. When were those silhouette Apple ipod ads with all the hip "indie" music?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod_advertising

@Virginicus I'm gonna say ~2003.

iPod advertising - Wikipedia

@SrRochardBunson
It was always kind of weird and inconsistent that payola was illegal

The dudes at Chess Records paid radio stations to promote their records, but it was above board and they kept receipts (for the tax write off) and it was just advertising

It only became a scandal when they held hearings talking about white and black kids dancing together

Fans and others were told set lists weren’t all based on requests and record sales, but that was only a technicality

@SrRochardBunson
Radio playlists are a trip: Top 40 stations would speed up records to make their stations sound “brighter” 🤩

Something in the Air
Radio, Rock, and the Revolution That Shaped a Generation

Great book by
Marc Fisher
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/49902/something-in-the-air-by-marc-fisher/9780307547095
#radio

Something in the Air by Marc Fisher | Penguin Random House Canada

A sweeping, anecdotal account of the great sounds and voices of radio–and how it became a bonding agent for a generation of American youth

Penguin Random House Canada

@SrRochardBunson
Bands always got charged big PR bills for sending records to every radio station on huge lists

Many DJs and underpaid music journalists too made handy extra income by immediately reselling these “Not for resale” copies

The “No payola” thing always struck me as a kind of pro-wrestling style kayfabe “not in front of the fans” anomaly

Certainly the musicians never stopped paying for it

@AccordionBruce that all makes sense & thanks for sharing!

One of my biggest "in the wild" scores was a Velvet Underground radio not for resell 45 for $1! I couldn't get out of that estate sell fast enough after paying! 😅

@SrRochardBunson
The whole “integrity/sellout/authenticity” thing in music goes back more than a century to European folk music people deciding what for to be “traditional”

I love that debate. There’s rich stuff in there once you get over there being any real thing without a predecessor or creator

Some person sat down and made all this stuff up, even if we don’t know who it was

The accordion was fun to write about because it’s young enough that we know many tantalizingly early players