Excellent post @thisisbenbrick. Lots of interesting information here.

To date, things don't seem as if they've changed all that much, even in this digital download age, where you'd like to think artist's would be benefitting from the now un-required infrastructure expenditures of the C.D era and back.

Roll on the cutting edge present, and the genius of the Blockchain presents artists with a far more encouraging proposition than anything that has ever come before.

Time to say goodbye to Mr.Middleman. If you haven't already heard, you'll be absent from every part of the process from here on in...... from creating to publishing :)

Music will only benefit from the subsequently more personal, artist to listener experience that will be one of the many positive feedbacks of this tectonic shift in the creative landscape; I'm really looking forward to these unstoppable developments bringing in a new musical era; a golden age where the unsung and talented artist's have a simple, fair and direct to market support network for their hard work.

If you haven't already, check out: www.resonate.is

Incorporating something similar into steemit, or as some kind of platform collaboration, would be really exciting!

Another great post. Thanks for sharing.