Blasting Rod @blastingrod@fedibird.com

I've been a professional musician since the end days of selling CDs, and I would like to say that having experienced the decline of CD sales because of piracy transition into the paid streaming era it's unambiguous that musicians were better off when mostly everyone was pirating and then some people bought CDs or other merch out of a desire to support vs today when everyone pays a nominal fee to a corporation that pays us nothing and also satisfies their desire to support despite not actually offering support.

I would much rather you pirate anything I have made or worked on vs listening on streaming services, which are an objective nightmare for musicians. Even if you never intend to spend a penny, normalizing piracy is better for us than normalizing the current capitalist-realism nightmare where you get whatever you want and also get to relax into the fiction that you aren't exploiting musicians because you pay the price of one album per month to a giant corporation so you can feel ok about it.

Here's an outtake from my paper presentation at the Grateful Dead Scholars Caucus at SWPACA. Phil's bass line on the 1st verse of 16 different performances of Playing in the Band.

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Announcing: Bob Matrix Mono.

Do you need to see the founder of the Church of SubGenius dancing on the head of a pin? The pin of a 9-pin dot matrix printer that is!

The Epson FX-80 font is re-used as a modular design, with the “dot” being replaced with a tiny image of J. R. "Bob" Dobbs; the image itself coming from the Atari ST pixel font.

I recommend using Bob Matrix at a size of 192 pixels.

https://gitlab.com/drj11/font-bobmatrix (free and libre licence)

Please boost!

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Having fun on Twitter unpicking a curious thing that happened to me this morning. Someone reached me on Signal thinking I was ChatGPT. Turned out it had given them my number.

OMG I LAUGHED