Could you please elaborate on your statement? Big personal cost?
Prince died with $300,000,000. I cant imagine the paltry sum he would have added to his fortune from streaming would have made that much of a difference.
more like the hit his reputation took over the past two decades due to him being widely considered an anachronistic kook cause he refused to "get with the times" and give away his music for free..
I don't think he took a stand so much because of what it meant to his pockets but because of what it meant for others... as you say, most artists make a pittance from streaming.. streaming means a lot of people feel no need to buy the actual music... people feel they don't need to buy the music so Prince dies and they don't have any and find it hard to access it.. he also was strongly against Youtube etc..
there is I think some sort of irony to people wanting to listen to Prince's music because he dies and they are reminded how much they love him and yet they can't immediately gratify their need to listen to his music because he was against the platforms/mediums people wish to use to access the music by the musician they love.. Prince's fight against the record labels and the new music "sharing" platforms was a huge thing for Prince..Prince tried hard in his last two decades to find other platforms for getting his music out to the people: free new cd with newspapers, free new cd if you bought a concert ticket etc.. he was definitely searching for something..
