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Streaming attention converts at 0.09% and evaporates in 72 hours. The indirect value of the same moment runs 30 to 100 times higher, but capturing it requires an afternoon of preparation that almost nobody does, for reasons that are documented, named, and older than the internet.
One factory in Missouri, one cloned mechanism from a defunct Japanese company, a can of whale oil, and an official promise to fix all of it.
Vinyl crossed a billion dollars in U.S. revenue last year. Streaming pays $0.003 per play. The artists winning at physical media are the ones who stopped treating it like another distribution channel and started treating it like a story.