Oceanship Listening Terms
You're a chocolatier. You create original chocolate and sell it. You've worked for years to become as good as you are and you've earned a reputation. People, including other chocolatiers, await your chocolate. One evening after giving a presentation to potential customers and offering samples of your product, the power goes out. Before this people were lined up to buy what you were selling. However, after the power returns your chocolates are strewn about the room and 90% of your audience has chocolate smeared about their face. They've also changed their minds about buying your chocolate.
In the coming days these people (Lights-Outers, or LOs) tell you that they've devised a way to turn the power out whenever they please, and this will be the way things are from now on. They tell you that in order to earn a living you can forget about doing so from chocolate directly, and that you will have to do one or a combination of the following:
1. Travel to each of their towns and give chocolate cooking classes (attendance not guaranteed)
2. Create something they want other than chocolate (t-shirts, keychains, etc).
3. Figure something else out — it's not their problem.
They also tell you that one of their leaders has created a service named Choclify whereby you can receive micro-pennies each time a LO eats your chocolate. A massive, consistent number of Choclifyers are required to sustain a living, but if you appeal to the masses you can grow rich. This, they say, is also an option for you.
The questions I put to you regarding the above scenario are:
1. Would you, as a chocolatier, do what the LOs ask?
2. Would you respect any chocolatier who would?
3. Do you respect the LOs?
Below are my terms. If you honour them you can consider yourself a fan of mine and me a fan of yours. If you don't, you cannot — and you are not welcome here. These words will read harsh to the vast majority of you, but this is how the truth invariably reads after a lengthy term of immersion within a lie (notably one you embody and/or believe you benefit from). Streaming — in present form — isn’t something you ever should have had; nothing you should have been given the opportunity to get used to. It is an ultimatum masquerading as a choice: “You put your music on my preferred streaming platform, or I continue to steal it — your ‘choice’”. Most of us know that near everyone has been paying zero for music since the internet allowed the option to buy it or to steal it. Most of us know because most of us are this person.
How to Access Oceanship Music:
1. Buy my music through my Website
2. Buy my music on Bandcamp
3. Buy my music on iTunes
4. Stream my music on Youtube and pay $20 USD (or more per album) through PayPal.
paypal.me/oceanship
Note: Google/Youtube make non-participation impossible due to the structure of the Digital Millennial Copyright Act, which allows fans to upload copyrighted music as they please, with no recourse for the copyright holder and no punishment for the fan. The only song I have sanctioned for play on Youtube is Hotblack (see explanation as to why underneath the video). If you hear any other song on Youtube, it is not there by my choice. However, it is still my song, and so the above applies.
